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Quotes About Humanity

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?
~ Dalai Lama
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~ Charles Kuralt
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
~ R.J. Palacio, Wonder
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
~ Liam Neeson
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
~ Sophocles
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
~ Richard Gere
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.
~ Vasily Grossman
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
~ Krista Tippett
And you can always, always give kindness
~ Anne Frank
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~ Gerald Massey
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.
~ George Saunders
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Kindness is the essence of greatness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think
~ Boonaa Mohammed
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
~ R. J. Palacio
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
~ Albert Schweitzer
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
~ Chris Abani
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Kindness can change the lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll