The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
. . . unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain. " "I know," said Pooh humbly.
true courtesy. . . is real kindness kindly expressed.
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job offer. He very kindly agreed to be part of it and it was an amazing experience.
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything. '' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.
