Top 1200 Kindness To Animals Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement, which is love in action. A lot of people have closer relationships with animals than they do with other humans, because real intimacy requires both parties to consistently lean in, and animals are so good at this. They remain consistently, amazingly attuned to us, even when we fail them, and so we stay present, because we sense we're safe.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

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

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest are just pictures of turtles. I remember they had Galapagos tortoises that they had somehow imported illegally and a bunch of other turtles too. I like the animals themselves. They're so self-possessed and self-contained and there's something wise and mysterious about them. I also like that they are prehistoric animals.

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

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

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.