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“How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!”

Thinking Life Looks Kind Seems Earth Pain Girl Heaven Behinds Kindness Wife Comfort Compare Odd Eclipse That Girl

Book:Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us.”

Whole Jesus Christ Sin Walks Love Is Behinds Kindness Discipline Perception Embrace Maturity Guidance Worldly His Love Scope Be Encouraged

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.”

“I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.”

Ifs Giving Littles Two Bits Behinds Kindness Little Bit Ordinary Everyday Fancy Cents Fellas Two Cents

Author:James Stewart

“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.”

Ifs Kind Simple Powerful Behinds Kindness Circumstances Streaks

Author:Suzanne Vega

“There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.”

People Men World Kind Littles Matter Running Behinds Teach Kindness Integrity Men And Women Loyalty Wheels Truck Running A Business

Author:James A. Garfield

“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.”

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.”

Girl Hurt Pleasure Behinds Boys Kindness Promise Library Stealing Hated Gym Flew Boy And Girl Tasting

Book:A Certain Slant of Light

Source: A Certain Slant of Light

“over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62”

Knows Left Forget Behinds Kindness Pages Including Offering Can Not Left Behind Loving Kindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

“"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."”

“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”

Ifs World Different Helping Decision Behinds Compassion Kindness Helping Others Factors Our World Volunteer Different Place Volunteerism Kindness And Compassion

Author:Sheryl Crow

“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.”

Thinking Life Writing Kind Reality Waiting Behinds Kindness Mirrors

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.”

Mean Wanted Remember Sides Behinds Wonder Kindness Amount Prove Photography Cameras Photograph Terror Reminders Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Author:Richard Avedon

“Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

People World Feels Firsts Doe Truth Beautiful Night Stars Behinds Teach Kindness Share Influence Truth Is Everyday Falsehood Beautiful Things Everyday Life Obscurity Desirability

Book:Khalil The Heretic

Source: Khalil The Heretic

“As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.”

Way Heart Faces Left Rooms Behinds Compassion Kindness My Heart Six Moved Sorry Plenty Bus Bells Platforms Left Behind Crowded Passengers Conductor Smiling Faces Bus Stops

Author:Edwin Francis Gay