Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other… — Francois Lelord Copy Share Image
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Religion can mean solace and serenity, a kind of security, a private small garden of kindness in a desert of cruelty that… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“We’re not friends. If you haven’t figured that out by now, I’ve still got work to do. It’s my job to take… — Aurora Rose Reynolds Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
“Love is not quiet. Love is loud and clear. Love makes noise for justice, against all injustice, and never forgets those most… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. When she went out many smiles came out and joined in sweet… — Sara Loo Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
You're sad? I'll cheer you up. You're upset? I'll love to listen. All you have to do is come to me, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our generosity and kindness to others will result in generosity and kindness from others, creating a cycle of positive energy that benefits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“She’s into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls.… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything… — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
“There is no substitute for hard work and taking responsibility for own own lives. And there is no substitute for love, patience,… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is… — Richelle Goodrich Copy Share Image
“CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
When my daughter Stefani - who most people know as Lady Gaga - was a child, she had to learn painful lessons… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
“I don't question anything further because you don't question people when they open up to you: you just listen. Or, you should.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory. — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board.… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was… — Abby Lass Copy Share Image
