Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Markus Zusak

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Margaret Halsey

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Patch Adams

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Laurence Yep

Kindness comes with no price.

Leigh Hunt

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Patsy Kensit

Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.

Liv Tyler

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Michael Cunningham

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

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

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.

Mason Cooley

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Michael Moore

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it, I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss; And until they can show me some happier planet. More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

Mencius

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Mencius

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Mencius

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Michael Josephson

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

P. G. Wodehouse

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