“I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“. . . his heart was kind; in a world where kind hearts were more rare than diamonds, he was a treasure… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
