"Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Kindness Quotes #Knives Quotes #Small Acts Quotes

“You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.”
“To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God's love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God's infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive.”
“I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.”
“He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.”
“Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.27, Harper Collins
“We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.”
“When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.”
“The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses â€“ it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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