I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
~By Elena Kagan ~
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
~By Mother Teresa ~
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
~By William Falconer ~
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~By Humphry Davy ~
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
~By Cole Younger ~
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Everyone responds to kindness.
~By Richard Gere ~
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.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me.
~By Philip Francis ~
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
~By Marcel Proust ~
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
~By Ron Reagan ~
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~By John Ruskin ~
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
~By David Rockefeller ~
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
~By Sharon Stone ~
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
~By Scott Adams ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
~By Graham Greene ~
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
~By Sloan Wilson ~
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
~By George MacDonald ~
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
~By Tilda Swinton ~
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~By Princess Diana ~
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
~By Libby Houston ~
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
~By Washington Irving ~
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
~By Nelson DeMille ~
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
~By James Oliver ~
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
~By William Shakespeare ~
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
Kindness is always fashionable.
~By Amelia E. Barr ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~By George Sand ~
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~By Aesop ~
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~By Og Mandino ~
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
~By John McGraw ~
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
~By P. D. James ~
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
~By Caroline Kennedy ~
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
~By Mencius ~
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.
~By Lin Yutang ~
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
~By Blu Cantrell ~
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
~By Dalai Lama ~
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
~By Preston Brooks ~
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
~By Harold Kushner ~
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
~By Bea Arthur ~
I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
~By George Dzundza ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~By Harvey Ball ~
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
~By Willa Cather ~
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
~By Jilly Cooper ~
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
~By William Wordsworth ~
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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