Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Wright

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Willa Cather

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Willa Cather

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Vincent Van Gogh

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear...

Wayne Dyer

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"

Wayne Dyer

Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.

Wayne Dyer

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Wayne Dyer

Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

Walter Bagehot

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Virginia Woolf

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Wayne White

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

Samuel Smiles

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

William Golding

I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Wilferd Peterson

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

Wilferd Peterson

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

Washington Irving

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Walter Lang

Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

William Stafford

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Landay

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Walter Savage Landor

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Walter Isaacson

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Winston Churchill

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

William Law

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

William J. H. Boetcker

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Woodrow Wilson

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

William Wordsworth

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

William Wordsworth

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

William Shenstone

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

William J. Clinton

Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.