Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Constant Kindness

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.  ~ Rudyard Kipling

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.  ~ L. M. Montgomery

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Constant kindness can accomplish much.  As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.  ~ Albert Schweitzer

Quotes about misunderstanding