#kind

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#kindlehighlight

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#kindlehighlight

They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down. ↗

— Scott O'Connor

#tattoos #time #kindlehighlight

Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love

He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry," he said. She laughed. "Forgiven. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#kiss #love #love

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. ↗

— Mark Twain

#evolution #humor #mankind #humor

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it. ↗

— Tina Fey

#kindlehighlight #humor

Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#love #nice #richelle #richelle-goodrich #self-control

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#humanity #love #mankind #art

There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That’s certainly not what we’re after in these pages. No, we’re after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the... ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#business