Choosing Kindness Quotes

#1. Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Alaric Hutchinson

#3. The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Jesse Ventura

#4. It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Bette Midler

#5. Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

George Herbert

#6. We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. In choosing a course of action, it's best to take the tack of kindness.

Peter Megargee Brown

#8. Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you - and through you perhaps history can be changed.

Billy Graham

#9. In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.

Laurence Yep

#10. A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

Martin Heidegger

#12. All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.

Francisco Varela

#13. But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Preston Sturges

#15. All the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

Vita Sackville-West

#16. Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

Marco Rubio

#17. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

Michio Kaku