It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.


Aldous Huxley

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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at th...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find a...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.
BECKY CHAMBERS
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE
The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH
Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIE
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and t...
JASON NEWSTED
One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS...
I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
LENA HORNE
A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for he...
DEMI LOVATO
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary...
JAMES BARRIE
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary...
JAMES M. BARRIE
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it ...
GERALD R. FORD
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leav...
ALTON BROWN
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.
TOM MASSON
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that the...
BERYL MARKHAM
In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they ...
BERYL MARKHAM
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
BROOKS ATKINSON
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG
This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG
I am a little afraid of giving people advice for fear that they might follow it.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
THOMAS L. MASSON
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
THOMAS L. MASSON
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
The best advice we can give ourselves is the loving advice we'd give somebody else. I can get some g...
JAN DENISE
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to...
R.J. PALACIO
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of t...
JOSEPH HALL
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT
The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lea...
HANS ADOLF KREBS
Color comes to life when you add a little love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It's good to have them throw together. I think they can learn from each other a little bit.
MIKE HARGROVE
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Don't give up! It seems difficult to you, right? Why not do something little about it every? A littl...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuff...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old met...
YUICHIRO MIURA
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I think we should all kind of watch out for each other. I think it's a good way to know people a lit...
JOAN TAYLOR
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time be...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The space between the words taught that a little distance is necessary to better understand each oth...
SAMUEL H. LOWE
I was a little naive thinking how fun it was going to be to live with another family, to learn about...
CARMEN WURGEL
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need...
PETE CARROLL
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time be...
CATHERINE ZETA JONES
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Now for my pains, promise me-“
And she hesitated.
“What?” asked Marius.
“Prom...
VICTOR HUGO
When I was growing up, my parents said to go to college and get a good job and then go try this. I d...
JAMES NIGGEMEYER
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
He gave me a lot of very useful advice when I set up Virgin Atlantic 21 years ago. Perhaps his best ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON
He gave me a lot of very useful advice when I set up Virgin Atlantic 21 years ago. Perhaps his best ...
SIR RICHARD BRANSON
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else i...
YOKO ONO
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so ...
REBECCA WEST
She knew too much. -A
SARA SHEPARD
May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have l...
REGINA SPEKTOR

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Pain was a fascinating horror
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
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A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
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Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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