Khaled Hosseini Quotes

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you're leaving, you become gentler.

What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

I've done and said a lot of things when I was younger that I don't know if I even understood what I was doing or why I was doing it. There's a lot of compassion in understanding what people go through and even in trying to understand why a person would act the way they do. I was a very reactive person, and I did things that were just really bizarre; I don't think people understood it at all.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda

Happiness is loving your enemies.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.