These kindred quotes will inspire you. Kindred alike in nature or character or one’s family and relations.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging kindred quotes, kindred sayings, and kindred proverbs.
Best Kindred Quotes
- “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.” ~ Jane Porter
- “To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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“And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” ~ Octavia Butler
- “I found that it wasn’t so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they’re kindred spirits.” ~ J. Carter Brown
- “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” ~ Alan Watts
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“People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “The older I get, the more I feel.” ~ Sharon Olds
- “All living things on earth are kindred.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“All-powerful souls have kindred with each other” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.” ~ Roy Orbison
- “Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.” ~ Arthur Desmond
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“Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.” ~ Juvenal
- “Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.” ~ Epicurus
- “If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.” ~ Plato
- “Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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“To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
- “Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “The greater the kindred is, the lessee the kindnesses must bee.” ~ John Lyly
- “Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.” ~ Samuel Rogers
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“To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “All-natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“Friendship is stronger than kindred.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.” ~ John Angell James , Kindred quotes about race
- “We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.” ~ Laurel Burch
- “Our universe grants every soul a twin- a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit – And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.” ~ Julie Dillon
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“Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
- “I’m always the one on the carpet that will be wearing something that nobody else will pick from the collection. I feel like I have some style soul sisters out there, like Diane Kruger and Zoe Saldana, they feel very much kindred spirits when it comes to style.” ~ Jaime King
- “O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
To thee;
And thou art drawn
By kindred impulse over silver tides
The dreamy way
To me.” ~ Harold Monro - “The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.” ~ William Hazlitt , Kindred quotes about power
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“How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?” ~ Quintus Ennius
- “As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho’ it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.” ~ Timothy Pickering
- “In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits; that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice, and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.” ~ James Madison
- “And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord’s command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.” ~ Benedict Groeschel
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“I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.” ~ Paul Theroux
- “I don’t like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they’ll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.” ~ Sandra Cisneros
- “Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.” ~ Wilkie Collins
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“I can’t go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can’t go camping. I don’t like to go into subways, because I always see them. Rats are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me.” ~ Sandra Cisneros
- “And Gandalf said: “This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow beings. Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth…bringing messages of love, warning, reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.” ~ Joseph Fielding Smith
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“He was like me – a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.” ~ Octavia Butler
- “That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
- “Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He’s one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he’d say the same. Actually, he did.” ~ Hunter Hayes
- “Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.” ~ Charles D’Ambrosio
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“Leo and I are kindred spirits – we’re cut from the same cloth.” ~ Kate Winslet
- “When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. … His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.” ~ William James
- “But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men’s dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.” ~ John Denham
- “Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
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“Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Personality-wise, we are all kindred spirits. I’ve said this before; if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect.” ~ John Petrucci
- “Where did you find that one?” “I have no idea. I’m a magnet for crazies, I guess.” “They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.” “Your one to talk. Don’t you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?” “Zombies not undead. There’s a fine distinction. And no. Right now I’m scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.” ~ Kiersten White
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“A bosom friend – an intimate friend, you know – a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel the joy that gets ignited when kindred spirits are together. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.” ~ Agapi Stassinopoulos
- “If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.” ~ Wilkie Collins
- “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there’s something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can’t help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It’s an inspiring time of the year.” ~ Marlo Thomas
- “The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the fame of its grassy meadows and fish attracted settlers out of England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of CONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass-ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives on its banks.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
