Quotes About Thoughtfulness

Por qué seré tan callado? Cuanto más hablan los que me rodean, menos ganas tengo de decir algo.

Haste makes waste.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

Lady Amelia Windsor

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase...

Where there is no experience, I believe the wise man is silent.

there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

meant well, and they had all been very good to her. Mrs Thornton was forever telling her to consider The Meadow her home, and she had even turned the little box room at the end of the second-floor landing into a bedroom for her. Mrs Thornton had insisted she keep a few clothes there, and when she had visited Gwen in November she had left behind

in relationships, the little things are the big things.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.