“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.” NeedsHumansPainLawCultureKindnessUniversalConstantHungerDetailsAbsenceLocalsBelovedPredictableExaltationNeed Love Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.” HumansKindnessPoisonMilkHuman Kindness Author:Friedrich Schiller
“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsMistakeKindnessWeaknessFaultsThis LifeDecentOne MistakeKindness For Weakness Author:Jeremy Piven
“You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsAttitudeKindnessClearOnenessRealizationLove And Respect Author:Dalai Lama
“Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.” HumansKindRememberHuman BeingsKindnessOfficeClaimsPrudentDiligentDiscreet Author:Albert Pike
“Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.” WayLoveInspirationalGivingShouldHumansSufferingGoalEffortKindnessAwarenessCrimeRewardsEncountersExpectingContinuingAbsolutely NothingHuman SufferingExpect NothingHuman KindnessGive 100 Percent Author:Louis C. K.
“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.” HumansKindnessImagineArmyRanChocolateSovietHugReplacedCookiesStarvingHuman KindnessHug Me Author:Eva Mozes Kor
“Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.” WorldNeedsBelieveHumansLooksMeanDoeCharacterTodayAmericaGirlKindnessNovelAchievementEmpathyConnectionsMiracleWoundsIntenseGenerosityMemorableDesperateInsightfulAngleTranscendenceCritiqueFeatsAndrewMillenniumDebutInvestigatingCaptivatingKindness GenerosityWhat It Means To Be Human Author:Doug Dorst
“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.” HumansLyingSocialKindnessViolenceHuman NatureThousandTenOrdinaryClaimsResponseBoundsStabilityAggressiveUsualRootedIgnoredFrequencyActs Of KindnessSpadesGeniality Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.” ThinkingHumansSpeakKindnessGraceEssenceLaysHumanismSavingEmphasisHuman KindnessSaving Grace Author:Michael Dirda