Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

David McCullough

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

David Mitchell

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David Mitchell

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David Mitchell

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David D. Burns

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Byron Katie

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

Chad Harbach

There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

Camille Paglia

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Caitlin Stasey

One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It’s like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings,

Catherine Ryan Hyde

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Carl Jung

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

David Dunn

Opportunities for kindness are flowing past us continuously, during the hours we spend at home, in the office or store or shop or laboratory where we work, as we walk along the street, as we drive hither and yon, as we travel by train or plane or bus - in short, wherever we are and whatever we are doing.

David Dunn

The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.

David Brainerd

I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence...

Audrey Hepburn

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Deb Caletti

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Deepak Chopra

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Edgar Cayce

Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.

Edgar Cayce

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Cheryl Richardson

Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.

Cheryl Strayed

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Cheri Huber

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

Charles Horton Cooley

Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

Bob Saget

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Bob Saget

Today is a brand new day. A day of change, of promise, of creativity, of kindness, and of love. I'm going back to bed.

Charlton Heston

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

Charles Kuralt

You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

Charles Kuralt

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Billy Joel

There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

Betty Williams

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Betty Williams

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.