Kinship Quotes

• Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.73, A&C Black

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• Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Skin Color, Soul

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• Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Acceptance, Humanity, Truest

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• Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

  Bill W.

  Heart, Suffering, Language

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• Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

  Epicurus

  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Benefits, Increase

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• True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

  William Golding

  Men, Fire, Dying

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• The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Yoga, Men, Essence

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

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• Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simplicity, May

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• It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, Happiness, Attitude

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• There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

  Norman Douglas

  Moral, Kind, Outlook

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Strong, Philosophy, Hygiene

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• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Happiness, Being Happy, Attitude

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• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Equality, Class, Diversity

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Shadow, Sun, Environment

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Art, Broken, Imagination

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Doe, Divine, Existence

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• Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Years, Class, Soul

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

  Joan Allen

  Thinking, Ties, Years

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• Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reflection, Authenticity, Creation

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• The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

  Jonathan Haidt

  Atheist, Practice, Faces

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• The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

  Alfred Molina

  Stars, Hero, People

  "I give good foreign". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2004.

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