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 ~
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
~By George Santayana ~
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
~By George MacDonald ~
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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 ~
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
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 ~
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
~By Carol Burnett ~
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 ~
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
~By Jilly Cooper ~
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
~By George A. Smith ~
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
~By Princess Diana ~
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
~By William Wordsworth ~
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
~By Roma Downey ~
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
~By Caroline Kennedy ~
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
~By Mencius ~
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 ~
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Kindness is wisdom.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
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 ~
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
~By P. D. James ~
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
~By David D. Burns ~
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
~By James Oliver ~
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
~By Anita Roddick ~
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 ~
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
~By Ron Reagan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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 ~
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
~By Aesop ~
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
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 ~
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
~By Amy Tan ~
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
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 ~
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
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 ~
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~By Mark Twain ~
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
~By Graham Greene ~
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
~By Marcel Proust ~
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
~By Scott Adams ~
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
~By Kiana Tom ~
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 ~
I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me.
~By Philip Francis ~
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 ~
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 ~
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
~By King Solomon ~
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
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