Barter With Kindness Quotes & Sayings

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying
shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded. — Peter S. Beagle

Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be. — James Vila Blake

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. — Jean Cocteau

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are. — Francois Fenelon

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God. — Robert Farrar Capon

I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They give me positive energy and strength. They make me feel connected to the earth. I cherish them. — Isabel Lucas

The causes of this distribution I do not know; but from our present point of view it ought to be clear that the real problem is not why some humble pious believing people suffer, but why some do not. Our Lord Himself, it will be remembered, explained the salvation of those who are fortunate in this world only by referring to the unsearchable omnipotence of God. — C.S. Lewis

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell

It wasn't even a bar. It was just a room where people drank while they waited for other people with whom they had business. The business usually involved the transfer of ownership of something from one person to another, but then, what business doesn't? — Terry Pratchett