Charles de Lint Quotes

Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Tenderness is a virtue.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

I do not like to be unkind.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.