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Quotes About Compassion

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
~ Jodi Picoult
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
~ Sara Paretsky
Kindness comes with no price.
~ Laurence Yep
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
~ Dave Matthews
Err in the direction of kindness.
~ George Saunders
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
~ Jean Maalouf
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
~ John James Audubon
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.
~ Steve Forbes
Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.
~ Courtney Stodden
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
~ Han Suyin
I count on the kindness of strangers.
~ Bill Murray
Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
~ Samuel Johnson
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
~ Nelson Mandela
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
~ Edgar Guest
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
~ Henry David Thoreau
After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
~ Joseph William Martin, Jr.
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
~ Sarah Doudney
kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.
~ Mary Louisa Molesworth