A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.
When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.
Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
It becomes still more difficult to find?Words at once true and kind,?Or not untrue and not unkind.
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.