#kindness

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#people #right #show #take #you

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#confidence #i #kindness #most #qualities

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#attachment #control #except #freedom #gains

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#consists #deserve #kindness #loving #more

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#back #everyday #greed #headlines #kindness

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#between #bring #compassion #correct #cuba

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ↗

— George Santayana

#art #bands #etc #football #good

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#human #human being #kindness #opportunity #wherever