K Quotes
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“Kindness should be at the core of one’s character. Be kind purely because it is who you are.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness should be immortalized every bit as much as power.”
Source: The Mom Identity
“Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.”
“Kindness shouldn’t have to be earned. It should be freely given.”
Source: Glint
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.”
“Kindness steps over racial prejudice to see the human being on the other side of colour. Kindness identifies, in each of us, the need to be loved, respected, and validated. And when an act of kindness does that, it no longer matters that I am White, and you are Black. Kindness steps across all hostility; racial, religious, language, etc. It is a powerful weapon that changes communities, one kind act at a time.”
Source: FINDING MY LOST VOICE: By Acting Justly, Loving Kindness and Walking Humbly with God
“Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.”
“Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.”
“Kindness that is fueled by guilt, pity, or colonialism is not kindness at all. Kindness is not currency or a commodity to be used to barter and bargain away the sins of our past or to alleviate our responsibility to be part of global recovery efforts in times of tragedy.”
Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
“Kindness to animals is how humans demonstrate respect for the purity we have lost.”
“Kindness to animals is its own reward.”
“Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.”
“Kindness to other is not all about neglecting yourself in the process. It is all about loving yours first and doing unto others what you can beat do to yourself.”
“Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.”
“Kindness towards humankind, animals, and the natural world remains the purest expression of spirituality, one that requires no ritual, no intermediary, and no fear of divine punishment.”
Source: Glimpses of My Worldview
“Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.”
Source: Be A Good Human
“Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.”
“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”
“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.”
Source: Brighton Belle
“Kindness, we have discovered—and I know this will sound strange to you—is more important than chemistry, and humility of far greater value than higher mathematics.”
Source: Dan England and the Noonday Devil
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. When she went out many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.
Taken from Ms. Loo's book Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry.”
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.”
“Kindness when you're wounded hurts more.”
Source: Good Me, Bad Me
“Kindness, which had been the food of my life through so many years, had lately been so entirely denied me, that I welcomed with grateful joy the slightest semblance of it.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.”
“Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.”
“Kindness will always attract kindness.”
“Kindness with expectation is no kindness.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“Kindness without truth comes across as flattery.
Truth without kindness comes across as disrespect.
Those who manage to find the sweet spot are the most persuasive.”
Source: Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
“Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.”
Source: My Childhood and Youth
“Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.”
Source: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”
“Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.”
Source: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.”
“Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”
Source: The Robin Sharma Pack
“Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.”
“Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.”
“Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.”
“Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”
Source: The Heart of a Dog
“Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.”
“Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.”
“Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.”
Source: Life Itself: A Memoir
“Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire,
As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.”
Source: Poems
“Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.”
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more
“Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.”
“Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.”