Quotes About Kindness

True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone) You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy

it was luck, dumb luck, that had put them each where they were, and the best way to pay for any luck, however temporary, was just to be helpful when you could.

You know what the Indians say. You saved my life, now you've got to—" "Yeah, yeah, some hippie made that up.

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

Ce devrait être toujours comme ça quand on aime. Sans condition. Sans juger. Sans établir des critères, des préférences.

Listening is love in action.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

It's time for you to give yourself the love, attention, loyalty, and care you've been trying to get from others your whole life. Grief has you gripped tightly by the ankles, and she may not let you go too soon. There's nowhere to go but home to yourself. This simple gesture of giving yourself your full attention when sorrow is shaking you to the bone promises to carve depth and kindness into the core of who you are—more than anything else I know.

Love exists to the extent that you give it away.

When they have reached their term, take them back in kindness, or part from them in kindness. KORAN

do with being a doormat or a second-class citizen, or even a slave of any kind. Instead, it seems to point to what most of Jesus' teaching points to: be kind to one another, love one another, be of service to one another, and treat others the way you want to be treated.

Go out into the world and do well; but more importantly—go out into the world and do good.

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.

There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.

Remember always this great commandment that Jesus left for us in Matthew 7:1–2: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you." Matthew 5:42

don't be so kind to me, she thought. I don't deserve it.

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine

Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.

Random acts of kindness were certainly scarce in this place and sometimes came from the most unexpected source.