Quotes About Perception

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

I like the sound of 'claps of no sound..

Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was in love with whichever of her guards was the most handsome.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

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.

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?