Be Kind Quotes - Page 13

• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Hurt, Giving Up

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Moving, Men

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Dog, Fall

  "Fictional character: Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl". "Fanny and Alexander", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Important, Pieces

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• I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Have Faith, Moral

  "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Brother, Men, Hints

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• The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Actors, Comedy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Might, Let Me

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• the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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  Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  Frank Zappa

  Positive, Inspiring, Science

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• Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Men, Knowing

  Journal entry in 1938. Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw to "Of Mice and Men", p. VII, 1994.

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kindness, Giving, Sick

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

  Mark Haddon

  Mother, Nice, Mean

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• we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, Love You, Mean

  Song: Looking For The Holes, Album: Not So Soft

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• If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Kindness, Advice

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• You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

  Anne Lamott

  Positivity, Practice, Kind

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.94, Penguin

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• At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fall, Two, Judging

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.23, Penguin

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• When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Choices, Inspiration

  "What’s Motivating You: Being Right or Being Kind?" by Jinny Ditzler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• It is higher and nobler to be kind.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Kind, Higher

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Acting, Vulnerable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

  Josh Radnor

  Jobs, Kindness, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

  "Personal quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

  Lynda Barry

  Mind, Tenants, Landlord

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