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I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
Oct 1, 2025
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.
Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
Every Day you should reach out and touch someone
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.
I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.
The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.
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.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.
We think too much and feel too little.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.