Kind Quotes - Page 9

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Real kindness seeks no return.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.