Acts Of Kindness Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Lying, Usual

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness", p. 282, 1993.

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• How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kindness, World, Changing The World

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• What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Ambition, What Matters

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

  Gary Lineker

  Kindness, Heart, Long

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• We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.

  Michael Novak

  Kindness, Civilization, People

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• See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kindness, Mean, Simple

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• No act of kindness is wasted.

  William Watson Purkey

  Kindness

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• I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

  John James Audubon

  Kindness, Thinking, Errors

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.97

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

  Marianne Williamson

  Kindness, Boost, Immune System

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 23, 2013

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• We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

  Paul Bloom

  Gratitude, Kindness, Good Life

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• The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

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• In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Love, Memories, Kindness

  "Colorado Police: Dead Gunman Left Long Note That Mentions Suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2006.

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• Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Dream, Kindness, Father

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• When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.

  Gary Blair

  Life, Kindness, Feel Good

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• Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Sep 14, 2012

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• Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

  Mary Pipher

  Friendship, Honesty, Kindness

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.141, Penguin

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• People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.

  Simon Baker

  Kindness, Differences, People

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• The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

  Dawna Markova

  Teacher, Kindness, Eye

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Kindness, Writing, Miracle

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• Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Creating, May

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 14, 2010

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• Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Past, Small Acts

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.97, St. Martin's Press

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• Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Kindness, Years, Each Day

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• If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Kindness, Worship

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• Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Jobs, Kindness, Best Job

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2015

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