I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“In my own shire, if I was sad Homely comforters I had: The earth, because my heart was sore, Sorrowed for the… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“When you do something kindly for another person, it leaves a mark, even if it fails or is rejected. Every generous impulse… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
Howl has been very kind to me.” And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
“When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold, I take off my work clothes, covered… — Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with… — Stephen Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Diary of Dervish Advaitam (Naskaristana 2738) The other day I was reminiscing, which was the first inhumanity that lit the fuse of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn’t lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in… — Alexander Berkman 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
In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“I hear my father; I need never fear. I hear my mother; I shall never be lonely, or want for love. When… — James Agee Copy Share Image
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the… — Nikos Kazantzakis 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
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost;… — St. Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
“When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even those with less-severe Other-blaming traits end up damaging relationships because they lack an ability to attend or respond to their partner’s… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Even in times of today, when one does not feel the need to go out of one's way for someone else, there… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
