Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.
– K Arsenault Rivera
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- I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world. – Shelly Crane
- If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie. – Hikigaya Hachiman
- It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. – Thomas Paine
- Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? – Johnny Rich
- Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
- In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue – Munia Khan
- More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you? – Michele L Rivera
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
- Kindness and love, love and kindness.. You can’t have one without the other.. Kindness and love go hand-in-hand. – Heather Wolf
- The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer. – Sloane Crosley
- She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. – Kristin Hannah
- But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. – Jon Krakauer
- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms. – Brenda Perlin
- I would rather be known as someone who tried and failed, than someone who never tried at all. – Lindsey Rietzsch
- You can’t quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did. – Yrsa DaleyWard
- I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us. – Robert Silverberg
- I tried to understand you… I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself… but I more likely become a victim on myself. – Deyth Banger
- Goldie hadn’t tried all three beds, she thought, but she’d certainly tried all three brothers. – Leigh Savage
- Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. – Dodie Smith
- Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. – Franklin D Roosevelt
- I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world. – Lacie Baskerville Pandora Hearts
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. – Erich Maria Remarque
- Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world. – Emma Winters
- The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. – Rivera Sun
- But what I knew then was that nobody– not even my mother– was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface. – Robertson Davies
- Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn’t get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn’t want it to see. – Cammie McGovern
- The map showed human places I’d never heard of – places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn’t theirs to claim. – Anne Bishop
- Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. – Albert Camus
- I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
- Let kindness be the flower of your heart and fragrance of your mind. Let it fill the world with peace, joy and the fragrance of kindness. – Debasish Mridha
- A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you. – Erica Cameron
- He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat. – Kelly Moran
- The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak. – Kate Forsyth