David Samuels famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
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Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.
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Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.
-- David Samuels
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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