Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses and sees perhaps for an instant perhaps for long periods of bliss an undistorted and more veritable world.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Kindness is always fashionable.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

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

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.