“I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.” TogetherHouseLostUnderstandingKindnessGraceFootballDramaBuiltAnd LoveFoundationKneesVietnamAthleticScholarshipLove And KindnessAthletic Scholarships Author:Gary Busey
“It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!” PastHouseEasyGrowthKindnessProgressEmotionalCostRewardsCommitUrgesFlawsComfortingFamiliarityDwellingHamperDwelling On The PastHouse Arrest Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
“You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.” HousePracticeKindnessMeditationExerciseIndiaPrisonMillionaireTibet Author:Pico Iyer
“My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.” NeedsChildrenHomePainHouseWalksKindnessEnvironmentLonelinessCostDespairSalvationAffectionSunlightRefreshmentsSave The Children Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.” IfsMenGivingShouldWould BeLawUsedHouseWaitingBlackKindnessHeardLandUsed To BeThanksSavingGentleJudgementChickensPeterYardsUnclesSay AnythingTestimonyBehalfDroppingDeservingHumiliatingActs Of KindnessMommaSheriffsSerfsJudgement DaySt PeterSquires Author:Maya Angelou
“And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.” MenYearsI CanBookPlayEyeLastsNextHouseVisionKindnessTakenSawsSkyBrokenPromiseLipsSilverTallThievesCigaretteLast TimeAccordionsAlpsLieselLiesel Meminger Author:Markus Zusak
“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.” PeopleHouseKindnessFitDestroyedHillsMeant To BeCountenanceExorcism Book:The Haunting of Hill House Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” LoveLifeGivingFirstsChildrenNextHouseKindnessWifeDoorsHusbandOur ChildrenCatholicLeavingSpreadNeighborYour ChildrenLove And KindnessCatholic SaintPeople SkillsNext Door NeighborsCatholic FaithSpreading Love Author:Mother Teresa
“First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.” FirstsHeartIdeasCharacterHouseQualityClassKindnessCarClothesGraduationFirst ClassClothes You Wear Author:Cory Booker
“Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.” YearsKindChildrenMadeMatterHouseSidesKindnessCarRegretAnd LoveAccountsDearSizeCompanionGrandchildrenFaithfulnessLove And RespectBank AccountsChildren And GrandchildrenDeferenceYears Of LifeGreat Grandchildren Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants...they will refuse to have 18 children.... If you treat Roman Catholics with due consideration and kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of the authoritative nature of their Church.” IfsGivingChildrenHardJobsHouseChurchKindnessTreatsCatholicRefuseDuesSpiteConsiderationGood JobProtestantsRoman Catholic Author:Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine