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Quotes About Reflection

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
~ Gautama Buddha
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
~ Winston Churchill
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
~ Don Van Vliet
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
~ James Russell Lowell
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
~ James Thurber
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
~ Laozi
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.
~ Laurence Olivier
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
~ Blaise Pascal
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.
~ Edgar Cayce
Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
~ Laurence J. Peter
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.
~ Danielle Cormack
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
~ Jack Kornfield
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
~ Patch Adams
If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
~ Seneca the Younger
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
~ Max Lucado