"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

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Kurt Vonnegut

#Compassion Quotes #Be Kind Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”
“It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.”
“I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships...”

Source : "Pop Tarts: Woody Allen: 'Scarlett Johansson in No Way My Muse'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. August 22, 2008.
“We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.”
“I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.”
“Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.”
“Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.”

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