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  • Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

  • I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.

    Hurt   Party   Thinking  
    Jean Rhys, Francis Wyndham, Diana Melly (1984). “The letters of Jean Rhys”, Viking Adult
  • I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

    Hate   Believe   Past  
    "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.
  • Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness; ask for nothing in return.

    Source: www.drwaynedyer.com
  • Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

    George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

    Pain   Loss   Filling Up  
  • As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

    Law   Honor   Remedy  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.
  • A small unkindness is a great offence.

    Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338
  • I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

    Hurt   Littles   Pockets  
  • Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

    Path   Manners   Motive  
  • Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

    William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.

    Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada
  • I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

  • He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

    Heart   Dust   Giving  
    John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6
  • Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

  • Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.20, New World Library
  • Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

    Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.31
  • Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

    "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".
  • Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

  • As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

    John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com
  • Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

    Pain   Kindness   People  
    FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 01, 2012
  • Drink down all unkindness.

    William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

    Cutting   People   Kind  
    Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume
  • One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

    Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
  • Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

    "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.
  • God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

    William Ellery Channing (1836). “A discourse on same of the distinguishing opinions of Unitarians, delivered at Baltimore in 1819. ...”, p.4
  • In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [403]
  • The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.

  • What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

    Men   Want   Be Kind  
    Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.222, MIRA
  • Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness.

    Wine   Giving   Bacchus  
    William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488
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