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Quotes About Kindness

every Friday, without fail, Saeed's father would drive home and collect his son and Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?
~ Mona Simpson
A story, after all, is best when shared, a gift in the truest sense of the word.
~ Monique Truong
Benim bütün çabam kimseye muhtaç olmadan yaÅŸamakt?r. İnsanlar hiçbir ÅŸeyimi almazlarsa, bana çok ÅŸey vermiÅŸ olurlar. Hiçbir kötülük etmezlerse, yeterince iyilik etmiÅŸ olurlar.
~ Montaigne
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
~ Morrie Schwartz
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in
~ Morrie Schwartz
It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
As you would want people to think about you, think you about them in like manner.
~ Murphy Joseph
That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.
~ N.M. Kelby
you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Riley : Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on. Mercy: Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.
~ Nalini Singh
Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think [and speak] about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others" (Phil. 4:8 LB).
~ Nancy C. Anderson
When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. And if you are like El Patron . . . Just think about it." – Tam Lin
~ Nancy Farmer
When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.
~ Nancy Farmer
You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.
~ Nancy Farmer
Sit down, Mi Vida," said El Patrón, indicating a chair by the table. "As I remember, you like cookies.
~ Nancy Farmer
The really important thing, if a marriage is to go well, without much love, is very very great niceness— gentillesse —and very good manners.
~ Nancy Mitford
There's no kindness in offering false hope.
~ Naomi Novik
That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.
~ Naomi Novik
Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.
~ Naomi Novik
Stop thinking how you can help the people nearest to you. Think about what help you can give best, and look for the nearest person who needs that help.
~ Naomi Novik
I knew it wasn't going to help me. It was a warm kind presence in my hands, but with the kindness of a friend who sits with you in comfort by the fire and can't change what's wrong.
~ Naomi Novik
if people grew milder or kinder with age, he certainly hadn't.
~ Naomi Novik