Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Barker

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being....

Cobie Smulders

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Elizabeth Strout

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

Elizabeth Strout

And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

B. C. Forbes

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, there is a reason; if there be a reason, it is not courtesy, for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good will, and good will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous. He gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Arabella Weir

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Ashley Greene

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

Matt Hasselbeck

Shoot, I kind of think we are still in shock, really.

She has some kind of 'levelness' about her.

James Barrie

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

She kinda swept me off my feet. She's very positive for me.

Mike stepped up. I couldn't be more pleased. He's a sophomore that's kind of had an up-and-down year, and he played fabulous. With minutes like that, he's going to get some more.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bruce Willis

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

Brandon Sanderson

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

Antisthenes

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Ben Mendelsohn

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

Barbara Johnson

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

Barbara Kingsolver

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Stocking

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Aziz Ansari

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.

Ayn Rand

Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

Charles Bukowski

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Charles Bukowski

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Charles Bukowski

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Atul Gawande

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Aristotle

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Aristotle

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.