Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Simmons

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Rachel Nichols

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Nhat Hanh

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Nhat Hanh

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Nhat Hanh

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Nhat Hanh

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Nhat Hanh

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

Nhat Hanh

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

Nhat Hanh

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

Nhat Hanh

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Nhat Hanh

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

Neon Hitch

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

Noam Chomsky

Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

Jodi Picoult

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Jodi Picoult

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Jodi Picoult

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Jodi Picoult

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

John Greenleaf Whittier

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

Kris Allen

I love any kind of candy.

Oprah Winfrey

I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

Margaret Atwood

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Kindness is produced by kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

Katie Holmes

I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob. So for me to consider a roommate, it would have to be one of my sisters or something.

Katie Holmes

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

Margaret Cho

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Larry Page

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.