Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Giffin

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Dickinson

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Henry Van Dyke

be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.

Henry Van Dyke

He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations.

Henry Rollins

I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

Henry James

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Khaled Hosseini

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

Khaled Hosseini

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

Khalil Gibran

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

Khalil Gibran

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Napoleon Hill

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Oscar Arias

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

Oscar de la Renta

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Orison Swett Marden

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

Omar Khayyam

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Oliver Sacks

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

Octavia Butler

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

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.

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.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Mallory Ortberg

Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.

Malcolm X

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.