They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
