“ Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be Kenji Miyazawa
“ 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… Tara Brach
“ You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring. Jennifer Skiff
“ 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 unpr… Stewart O'Nan
“ Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else… Laura Anderson Kurk
“ I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or… Dan Pearce
“ The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better… Dan Pearce
“ Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one small m… Vasily Grossman
“ This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highest achievement of his soul. No, it says, life is not evil!This kindness is both s… Vasily Grossman
“ Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love.… Michael Ben Zehabe
“ My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against… Vasily Grossman
“ As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something. Dan Pearce
“ Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority. Nenia Campbell
“ All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Mahavira
“ Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves. Rose Wynters
“ The people are hungry,” Mihali said. He lifted his hands, spreading them to encompass the city. “The people need to be fed. They need bread and wine and soup and meat. But not just that. They need fri… Brian McClellan
“ ...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport. Nenia Campbell
“ It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for. Julie Anne Long
