Famous Quotes & Sayings

John O'Donohue

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

John O'Donohue

If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative qualities as his best qualities. Rather than banishing what is at first glimpse unwelcome, you bring it home to unity with your life…..One of your sacred duties is to exercise kindness towrd them. In a sense, you are called to be a loving parent to your delinquent qualiites

John McGraw

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

George Ade

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

George Ade

Scatter seeds of kindness.

George A. Smith

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Frank A. Clark

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank A. Clark

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Eknath Easwaran

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Louise Bogan

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Character is the architect of the being.

John Gardner

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

Lisa Kleypas

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

Lionel Barrymore

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Leo Tolstoy

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..

Leo Buscaglia

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Leo Buscaglia

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Lewis B. Smedes

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Joseph Stowell

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Joseph Stowell

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

John Lyly

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Joanna Garcia

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Jim Rohn

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

George MacDonald

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.