“Without cruelty one cannot see the kindness, with no brutality no one will witness and appreciate the gentle monsters, that without the… — Wulf Francú Godgluck Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
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“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Never allow anyone to take advantage of you in no shape form or fashion. People get into relationships for different reasons. And,… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by… — Sasha Azevedo Copy Share Image
The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself,… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client… — Geoffrey Fieger Copy Share Image
“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Turning to the crimson pavilion, beneath the filters of its carved lattices, illumination baffles sleep. Why does the moon bear grudge as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He the Word that He might be glorified; the Word remaining quiescent, that He might be capable of being tempted, dishonoured, crucified,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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“His mercy is not niceness. His mercy is not blanket acceptance of any and all. Mercy to us costs him—the blood of… — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I want to practice faithfulness and kindness; I am learning to fill my ears with the repetitions of wide eyes and open… — Sarah Bessey 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
“I think we’ve made a mistake,” he says softly. “We’ve all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he was touched by the American’s desire to help him: once when a… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree.… — Christina Feldman Copy Share Image
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
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