397 quotes found
“We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.”
“Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.”
“WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART.”
“...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...”
“Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.”
“Being kind is not hereditary”
“She knew that kindness kills. All her life she'd suspected this and so she'd only ever been cold and cruel. She'd faced kindness with cutting remarks. She'd curled her lips at smiling faces. She'd ...”
“father taught me that the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If its not one of those three, its best not to say it”
“I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness is a corruption for those upon whom it is practiced. That may be...”
“I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do:...”
“You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind.”
“Just resolve to shine, constantly and steadily, like a warm lamp in the corner, and people will want to move towards you in order to feel happy, and to read things more clearly. You will be bright ...”
“But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate...”
“In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.”
“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let...”
“Kindness is something that should always be passed on.”
“The kindnesses I never forget them. And so they keep one from becoming bitter. They encourage you to be as strong, as volatile as necessary to make a well world. Those people who gave me so much, ...”
“It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.”
“Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.”
“The gift of kindness brightens the life of other people.”
