Kind Quotes - Page 71

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

The only time to believe any kind of rating is when it shows you at the top.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.