#kin

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#religion #simple #very

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#comfort #despair #either #end #find

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#any #box #encouraging #enthusiastic #evidence

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#creating #instead #looking #lover #perfect

He was tall in the bed and I could see the silver through his eyelids. His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do—the best ones. The ones who rise up and say, “I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come.” Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping. He lay in my arms and rested. There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there that he hoped to read one day. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#p- #art

For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.  For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.  For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.  For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.  For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.  People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#charity #inspirational #kindness #misattributed-to-audrey-hepburn #beauty

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#beautiful #gift #kindness #love #smile

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#inner-beauty #kindness #age

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. ↗

— John Green

#death

Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand? ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#faery #humor #julie-kagawa #meghan #prince