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Quotes About Kindness

Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other.
~ Alice Munro
I would often invent this dream for myself at the edge of sleep, and then it was strange how content it would make me, how it would make peace and consolation flow, and I would close my eyes and float on it into my real dreams which were never so kind [...].
~ Alice Munro
even if she's faking, it shows she wants to feel something, doesn't it, oughtn't decent people to help her?
~ Alice Munro
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn't watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I'm afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.
~ Alice Sebold
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us needed it.
~ Alice Sebold
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of is had needed it.
~ Alice Sebold
He walked in the room like a ghost and like a ghost slipped in between the sheets, barely creasing them. He was not unkind in the ways that the television and newspapers were full of. His cruelty was in his absence. Even when he came and sat at her dinner table and ate her food, he was not there.
~ Alice Sebold
Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
~ Alice Walker
the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.
~ Alice Walker
May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I have come to you, for you, to be a witness to your life and to extend whatever understanding and happiness I can.
~ Alice Walker
Tenían mucho cariño que repartir. Pero yo necesitaba cariño y tolerancia. Y de esto andaban escasos.
~ Alice Walker
It not nice to speak ill of the dead, one say, but the truth never can be ill.
~ Alice Walker
Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.
~ Alice Walker
What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.
~ Alice Walker
that human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I
~ Alice Walker
unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
~ Alice Walker
Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.
~ Alice Walker
HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another—plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H
~ Alice Walker
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Yeah? I say. Yeah, she say. It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.
~ Alice Walker
Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing.
~ Alice Walker
Dear Teddy, you are without a doubt the best boyfriend in the world. You're kind. You're generous. You threaten to maim people for me. -- Billy
~ Allan Heinberg
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
~ Allen Ginsberg
May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Give, share, loose—lest we die, unbloomed.
~ Allen Ginsberg