Kind Quotes - Page 89

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Kindness is our religion.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.

When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

All art is a kind of confession.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.