Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Buscaglia

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Leo Buscaglia

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Levon Helm

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

Lewis B. Smedes

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Joseph Stowell

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Joseph Stowell

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Juliette Lewis

Music is kind of my everything.

Julianna Margulies

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

Gayle Forman

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Luke Ford

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Louis de Bernieres

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Louis Auchincloss

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Malcolm Cowley

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

Maira Kalman

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maisie Williams

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

Maimonides

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Maimonides

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

Maimonides

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Gail Carson Levine

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Freya Stark

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Norman Mailer

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Oscar Arias

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

Oscar de la Renta

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Orison Swett Marden

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

Omar Khayyam

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Oliver Sacks

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

Octavia Butler

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Novalis

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Norman Vincent Peale

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.