Kind Quotes - Page 198

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

I'm a bad walker but I can dance tango. You know why? Put your hand up. Push on my fingertips and just hold it. In tango, your feet are free but the top of your body pushes, so if I feel like I'm gonna fall, my partner can catch me. So I walk with a stick but I can totally dance the tango. It's a romantic kind of thing.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.