“I believe in loving people even if they'll never love you properly back.”
Source: Escape
“If you’re the dog, allow yourself to get hit again. Then lick the hand that deals the blow.”
Source: In Limbo
“Once all the technical mystique has been stripped away from psychotherapy, it does seem that a likely explanation for its almost explosive expansion over the last few decades is that it provides something which is otherwise in very short supply in a world in which a kind of watchful defensiveness against our vulnerability has replaced any kind of spontaneous generosity which people may more often once have felt for each other.”
Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
“We can get through this together, as long as we stay kind.”
Source: Hope from Lockdown
“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”
Source: Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier
“If you want kindness from others, be kind. If you want love from others, be loving. If you want peace from others, be peaceful.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Life lies in service, Selfishness kills vitalidad.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn”
Source: Audrey Hepburn 2019 Calendar
“Fairness is not decomposable into other classified strengths, although such characteristics as kindness may lay its foundation and such characteristics as self-regulation may facilitate its implementation.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the quality of their lives or even their lives at all. When politicians and salespeople start being kind to black women, seeking them out, offering them largesse, the women accept the soft voices, the simpering statements, the often idle promises, because those are likely to be the only flattering behavior directed to them that day. Behind the women's eyes, however, there is a wisdom that does not pretend to be unaware; nor does it permit gullibility.”
Source: A Song Flung Up to Heaven