Kind Quotes - Page 184

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

I think that's a luxury - to have a nomadic life and to be a kind of bohemian. You feel totally free and you can adapt yourself very easily. But at the same time you can totally lose balance, because you don't know where you belong anymore.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved when she danced. Theatrical pieces like that stayed with me. I wanted to grow up to wear those kinds of things.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.

My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.

Err in the direction of kindness.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.