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Quotes About Kindness

If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.
~ Tom Clancy
Behaving as if you are better than others shows a lack of regard for other people.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!
~ Tom Perrotta
we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;
~ Tom Robbins
As they say in my country, have a nice day.
~ Tom Robbins
I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?
~ Tom Robbins
I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?
~ Tom Robbins
I ask that any and all beings assist and comfort anyone that I have ever harmed either physically, mentally, morally, spiritually or emotionally in any past, present or future life, and I ask any and all beings to assist and comfort the families and friends of anyone I have ever harmed in any way, in any past, present or future life, thank you!
~ Tom T. Moore
Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.
~ Toni Morrison
Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people –they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace
~ Toni Morrison
It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.
~ Toni Morrison
When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back.
~ Toni Morrison
you just can't mishandle creatures and expect success.
~ Toni Morrison
We will be judged by how well we love.
~ Toni Morrison
Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset
~ Toni Morrison
Reverend Father is the only kind man I ever see. When I arrive here I believe it is the place he warns against. The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire where sinners bubble and singe forever. But the ice comes first, he says. And when I see knives of it hanging from the houses and trees and feel the white air burn my face I am certain the fire is coming.
~ Toni Morrison
The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
~ Toni Morrison
The best thing was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
~ Toni Morrison
She did not know it then, but the word baby, said softly and with such kindness, that inaugurated her life in the world as a woman.
~ Toni Morrison
No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis's cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.
~ Toni Morrison
Not hating him is not enough; liking, loving him is not useful. I have to alter things. I have to alter things. I have to be a shadow who wishes him well, mine the smokes of the dead left over from their lives.
~ Toni Morrison
We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.
~ Toni Morrison
If I asked her in what ways you have adjusted your plans and schedule in the past month because you saw that she had a burden or a need you could help meet, would she be able to recall such times?
~ Tony Evans