It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on…

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

— David Shields

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

— Zooey Deschanel

You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six…

— Jake Tapper

“With an effort, the kind you use when confronting an unpleasant duty,”

— Mark Lawrence

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

— Jake Tapper

“One bad turn does not excuse another.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits,…

— Reginald Heber

“Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It's simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

— Mother Teresa

“If somebody treats you with unkindness, if they judge or criticize you, it’s likely they have endured similar treatment from others in the past,…

— Jeff Foster

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are…

— John Ruskin

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

— Agnes Repplier

“You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the…

— Rohinton Mistry