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Kind Quotes (page 160)

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another. John Irving
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?"Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace. Elizabeth Gilbert
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste. Julio Cortazar
George Eliot quote: "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown..."
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot
Tanith Lee quote: "The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or..."
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear. Tanith Lee
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively. Dodie Smith
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb? Hunter S. Thompson
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a..."
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone."
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. William Makepeace Thackeray
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness. Milan Kundera
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. Bill Bryson
Robert Benchley quote: "There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children."
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. Robert Benchley
He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself). J. R. R. Tolkien
I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may... Thomas Merton

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