Kindness Book Quotes

#1. There's no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it's always better to err on the side of kindness. That's the secret. If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

R.J. Palacio

#2. I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

Kate Smith

#3. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few

Neil Gaiman

#4. His expression went cold and dark as he came within inches from her, towering over her small frame. His voice was calm but stern. "Let me be clear before we begin our working relationship. I am not kind nor do I, or will I ever, offer anything out of sheer kindness.

Madison Thorne Grey

#5. 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Jessye Norman

#6. Love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.

James K. Hoffmeier

#8. Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.

Nikki Rowe

#9. Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway?

George W. Bush

#10. But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

Renata Bowers

#11. The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Christopher Morley

#12. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

#13. Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions.

Jay Allan

#14. I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther

#15. You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

Jeffrey Lang

#16. She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Nikki Rosen

#17. Kill them with kindness, slay them with a smile and murder them with a kiss. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man.

A. Giannoccaro

#18. Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Thomas Szasz

#19. I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious
unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

Mark Twain

#20. Close all the books
Open the Heart's book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.

Gabriel Iqbal

#21. Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Mortimer Adler

#22. By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Emily Dickinson