#kindness

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#being ignored #child #children #harshness #ignored

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#alone #beautiful #eyes #good #kindness

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#ideas #kindness #truth #beauty

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #deception #eyes #fortitude

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it! ↗

— George Elliston

#kindness #beauty

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#goodness #kindness #beauty

...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too. ↗

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#life #beauty

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#counsellor #counselor #humanity #joy #kindness