Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yvonne Strahovski

It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing.

William Hazlitt

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Walter Payton

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

Willa Cather

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear...

Wayne Dyer

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"

Wayne Dyer

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

Wayne Dyer

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Wayne Dyer

Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

Walter Bagehot

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Virginia Woolf

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Wayne White

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

Samuel Smiles

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Rudy Rucker

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Katy Perry

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

Rainn Wilson

(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

Radha Mitchell

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Rachel Stevens

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Sean William Scott

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

Lin Yutang

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.

Liam Neeson

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Thom Yorke

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

Therese of Lisieux

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...

Tertullian

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Terry Pratchett

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.