Kind Quotes - Page 41

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.

To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Kindness in giving creates love.

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.