Nella Larsen Quotes

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

Nella Larsen

• Kindness
• Loving
• Unhappiness

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• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Young
  • Kindness

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Loving
  • Momma

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Truth
  • Balance
  • Kindness

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Love
  • Loving
  • Cease

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kindness

• I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Proud

• He Jean still felt surges of generosity, and gave in to them if they didn’t cramp his style. That was it. He could be kind if kindness caused him no problems.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Style
  • Kindness
  • Generosity

• The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Kindness

• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Kindness

• Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Knowledge
  • Kindness
  • Expectation

• I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Thoughts
  • Daily
  • Kindness

• Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Risk
  • Kindness

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Silence
  • Kindness
  • Ungrateful

• I could be dramatic and go "He saved my life!", but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Reason
  • Sometimes
  • Matter

• I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • Loyalty

• She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Humanity
  • Deep

• Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

  

  Nella Larsen
  • Kindness
  • Loving
  • Unhappiness