“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.” KindStoriesValuesAbilityKindnessCarGood Story Author:Rebecca Wells
“I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!” WayStoriesValuesEffortKindnessThemePlot Author:Gail Carson Levine
“When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.” ThinkingWayTryingStoriesThreeSidesKindnessHonestBalancePicksVersionsGutsMultipleHonest TruthSensationalThree Ways Author:Walter Isaacson
“I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.” FeelsWritingHas BeensBookStoriesKindnessFellowsMailRunnersOverwhelmedKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.” MindStoriesFeelingsBodyProcessAttentionAcceptingKindnessAcceptanceHappeningsRegardRadicalSensationsComes And GoesRadical Acceptance Author:Tara Brach
“People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.” PeopleShouldHumansBookStoriesKindnessCuriosityToleranceCrueltyOppressionCelebrateIntoleranceOpen MindednessHuman IntelligenceUnkindnessNarrow Mindedness Author:Philip Pullman
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.” IfsKindArtWholeStoriesLastsArtistKindnessSurvivalArt IsConfessionAnguishVomiting Author:James A. Baldwin
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” MenWorldLifeBelieveHumansWellsHardDoneStoriesEvilLeftI BelieveKindnessAmbitionCleanHungerIllCaughtCrueltyDustGenerosityGood And EvilChipsEdenAvariceEast Of Eden Author:John Steinbeck
“As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.” GivingLongHelpingStoriesRememberKindnessBe GoodWorthwhileLong AgoMake You HappyLove And KindnessHelping Each Other Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.” KnowsNeedsWritingMayPersonsDifferentStoriesLyingGrowsKindnessGrowing UpReaderComfortLandscapeHaving HopeTrue ThingsSomewhere Out ThereGood LiesWhy We Write Author:Neil Gaiman
“If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.” IfsStoriesLastsEnjoyPayKindnessMinesReadyWindowUniversalTalesBites Book:Moon Over Manifest Source: Moon Over Manifest
“When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.” WantGivingFeelsTryingKindCharacterStoriesSeemsGriefKindnessCryColdReaderStrongerBackgroundsImpressionObjectivesPityCraftsMiserableUnfortunateStanding OutSigh Author:Anton Chekhov
“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.” PeopleKnowsEnoughStoriesYoungHopeWomenKindnessQuietShameActressesFatsLoudTallBe KindYoung WomenToo ShortSkinnyNot Good EnoughKinderGreat HopeFatnessFat WomenShort PeopleExcessiveness Author:Emma Stone
“Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.” IfsWantNeedsSelfMatterStoriesSpeakKindnessSpecialNo Matter WhatReliefBe YouReveriePersonal Stories Book:Half a Life: A Memoir Source: Half a Life: A Memoir
“All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.” WantStoriesFeelingsRoomsCompassionKindnessThousandRelaxTendernessSnakesRopeStrands Author:Geneen Roth
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with heads cut off. I will try to teach it but it will be in vain, s’why I’ll end up in a shack praying and being cool and singing by my woodstove making pancakes.” WorldTryingMindEndsStoriesRunningHeavenRealizingForgetTeachPracticeKindnessCuttingRocksPrayingMessagesSingingForgivingVainChickensBlessBeing CoolPancakesForgive And ForgetShack Author:Jack Kerouac
“Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.” ThinkingStoriesLightActionCausesKindnessGoneEffectsHolyIdealsLaborPassionateSeedsCommitAll KindsSublimeBudRadianceCrossroadsIndolence Author:Mary Oliver