#kindness

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

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#human #human being #kindness #opportunity #wherever

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#compassion #dignity #forth #i #i think

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#bottom line #just #kindness #line #people

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

#belief #century #half #human #human kindness

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#strength

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#barbarism #every #everyone #first #first step

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#appreciated #day #end #end of the day #guess