Kind Quotes - Page 39

• I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

  Dana Delany

  Fun, Men, Dating

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• It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  God, Spiritual, Block

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press

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• If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Men, Position

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• I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Acceptance, Thinking, Love And Respect

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• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Past, Men

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• Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Gaps, Today

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• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  Satish Kumar

  God, Spiritual, Art

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• D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Be kind to everyone; forgive everyone everything.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Forgiving, Be Kind

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• I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

  Halle Berry

  Light, Age, Want

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• I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vision, President, Truman

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Communism, Communist

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• If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

  Raymond Chandler

  Community, Society, World

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

  Colin Firth

  Love, Important, Want

  Elle Magazine Interview, www.firth.com. January 2004.

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• As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

  Mira Sorvino

  Self Esteem, Night, Self Respect

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• Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Loss, Transgression

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• Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

  Samuel Smiles

  Moving, Progress, Moving Forward

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.74

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• Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

  Linford Christie

  Jobs, Athlete, School

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• I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Race

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• A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Changed, Novel

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• The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

  George W. Bush

  Children, Integrity, Character

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• People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are throwing those judgments on other people. And this game has become out of proportion. The whole humanity is suffering from it. If you want to get out of it, the first thing is: Don't judge yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Games, Ideas, Judging

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