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Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.
Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness!! Share a SMILE and make it a great day:)!
If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
Happy Wednesday Fam! Dream BIG, live courageously, communicate honestly, be mindful, act with kindness, and SPREAD LOVE TODAY and EVERY DAY !
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.