Kind Quotes - Page 95

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Accepting help is its own kind of strength.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.