Kind Quotes - Page 70

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

We are made kind by being kind.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.