“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
The Problem of Pain (1940)
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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
Sticky Wickets (1950), ASIN: B0000CHN1L
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208
“He loved his kind, but sought the love of few,
And valued old opinions more than new.”
Park Benjamin, Sr. (1809–1864) American journalist
Infatuation.
David Levithan book Every Day
Variant: I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
Source: Every Day
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist
Amrita to her contemporary painters.
Sikh Heritage,Amrita Shergil
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37