Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patanjali

Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

P. D. James

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

P. G. Wodehouse

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

P. G. Wodehouse

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

Ovid

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

Paul Feig

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

Paul Bloom

I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

Paul Bloom

By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

Matt Groening

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

Martha Beck

If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie. At the very least, you always have the option to offer yourself kindness and understanding. That alone can increase the supply of love in the world.

Marisa Tomei

You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.

Paul Rusesabagina

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

Paul Sarbanes

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.

Michael Novak

We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.

Markus Zusak

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

Markus Zusak

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

Mark Twain

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Marianne Williamson

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Marianne Williamson

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

Chris Robinson

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Gertrude Stein

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on...

George Saunders

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

George Saunders

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

John Ruskin

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

John Patrick Shanley

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

John Owen

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

John Milton

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Norman Cousins

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Noel Gallagher

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.