Kind Quotes - Page 80

You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

Let us be kinder to one another.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.