Kind Quotes - Page 51

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Love and kindness are never wasted.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.