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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Embarrassing, Seems

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• Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

  Emma Thompson

  Kindness, People, Suffering

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• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Conceited, Narcissism

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

  Albert Camus

  Gratitude, Sex, Bed

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.67, Vintage

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• It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Years

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• People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

  Cynthia Lord

  Believe, Long, People

  Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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• Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Past, Stupidity

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• We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

  Neil Young

  Gun, Men, Light

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• When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

  Bret Harte

  Honesty, Mind, Speak

  Bret Harte (2016). “The Argonauts of North Liberty”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mean, Difficult Choices, Safety

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• Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?

  Mark Akenside

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Mark Akenside (2012). “Poetical Works of Akenside”, p.285, tredition

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• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.

  Will Rogers

  Laughter, Long, Happens

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

  Ben Harper

  Hands, Two, World

  Song: With My Own Two Hands, Album: Diamonds On The Inside, 2003

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• The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Kindness, Real, Civilization

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• As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

  Donna Farhi

  People, Needs, World

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• Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true;
  We're only genuine children still in Age's season.
  [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht,
  Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Men, Age

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• Be a little kinder to each other.

  Laura Huxley

  Littles

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

  Leonard Shlain

  Brain, Hemisphere, Layers

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!

  John Keats

  Powerful, Believe, Feelings

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats: Lamia (Unabridged Edition): A Narrative Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion…”, p.365, e-artnow

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• The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Heart, Rivers

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• I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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