If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. —William Feather More about this quote Tags: kindness people fondness opportunism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. —Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit More about this quote Tags: kindness beauty appearance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world. —Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle More about this quote Tags: kindness happiness world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith. —Vivienne de Watteville More about this quote Tags: understanding love reality kindness beauty learning discovery regret faith loss effort greatness opportunity generosity envy agony remorse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: fear kindness schizophrenia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again. —Christiane Buuck More about this quote Tags: kindness good anger miracles friendliness thoughtfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox More about this quote Tags: God kindness sadness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. —Anna Sewell More about this quote Tags: love kindness religion good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. —Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux More about this quote Tags: kindness world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. —Robert Green Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: virtue kindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind! —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: life kindness time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: love others kindness people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Her sense of humor had drawn him in first. Then her sweetness. She had a kind heart, loved children, and felt music in her soul like he did. They could talk for hours without running out of anything to say—something he hadn't found with most other women. —Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd More about this quote Tags: love kindness humor music sweetness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection. —L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty More about this quote Tags: love kindness rejection vulnerability misery cruelty bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email