Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

Rudolf Arnheim

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

Rosie O'Donnell

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

Ron Kaufman

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten.

William Cowper

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Wayne Dyer

So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one.

Wayne Dyer

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.

Wayne Dyer

Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention.

Wayne Dyer

If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.

Wayne Dyer

Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.

Wayne Dyer

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.

Wayne Dyer

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.

Vasily Grossman

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

Vasily Grossman

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

William Golding

I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Wilferd Peterson

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

Wilferd Peterson

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

William P. Young

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

William Penn

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

William Penn

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Yehuda Amichai

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Yelawolf

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.