Kind Quotes - Page 60

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Do more than be fair: be kind.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.