Kind Quotes - Page 84

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.