The kindest word in the world is the unkind word, unsaid. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: kindness silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. —Leo Buscaglia More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a quarrel, each side is right. —Yiddish folk saying More about this quote Tags: right opinions fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: solitude love silence gentleness brotherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't introduce me to him," said Charles Lamb, when a friend offered to present a man whom Lamb had for a long time disliked by hearsay. "I want to go on hating him, and I can't do that to a man I know. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. —James McNeill Whistler More about this quote Tags: conversation talking frustration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rarely an hour passed that they didn't argue about something. They had lived together for so many years that they mistook their arguments for conversations. —Marjorie Kellogg More about this quote Tags: relationships communication conversation arguments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? —Philip Roth More about this quote Tags: understanding intelligence manufacturing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
On their return journey from the South Pole, Scott's party was beset by fearful blizzards. Oates suffered badly from frostbitten feet, which were turning gangrenous. He begged to be left behind so as not to slow up the others. His companions would not hear of it, and they struggled on for another day. The following morning the blizzard was still raging. Oates said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He then walked out of the tent and vanished forever into the storm. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. —Robert Brault More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have never but once succeeded in making him tell a lie, and that was by a subterfuge. "Moore," I said, "do you always speak the truth?" "No," he replied. I believe this to be the only lie he ever told. —Bertrand Russell on George Edward Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. —Alan Simpson More about this quote Tags: honesty integrity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth: left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. —Fay Weldon More about this quote Tags: truth effort avoidance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email