#kind

Dogfish I wanted The past to go away, I wanted To leave it, like another country; I wanted My life to close, and open Like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song Where it falls Down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted To hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, Whoever I was, I was Alive For a little while. …mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, Or mean, For a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to Swim through the fires to stay in This world. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poetry #life

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#mankind #life

Heaven is always there for us; but this life... this life is a gift to us. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human #life-and-living #living-life #mankind #life

Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby. ↗

— Franz McLaren

#ereader #kindle #life

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#anxiety #attitude #bombs #chance #contemporary

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#mankind #life

How good life is when one does something good and just! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#goodness #justice #kindness #life

Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#kind #kindness #nice #life

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#terry-goodkind #life

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way. ↗

— Tara Brach

#intimacy #kindness #listening #truth #vulnerability