Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John James Audubon

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

John James Audubon

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

John Heywood

One good turn asketh another.

John O'Donohue

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

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.

James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Stewart

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

James M. Barrie

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

Joe Rogan

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.

Joan Didion

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Louis de Bernieres

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Louis Auchincloss

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Maira Kalman

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maimonides

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Maimonides

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

Maimonides

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Gail Carson Levine

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Freya Stark

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.