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Quotes About Kindness

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
~ Mary Ann Kelty
To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.
~ Thomas Fitzosborne
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
~ Julia A. Fletcher Carney
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Happiness is a by-product of helping others.
~ Denny Miller
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known.
~ Amy R. Raabe
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
~ Chinese proverb
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
~ B. C. Forbes
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
~ Marie von EbnerEschenbach
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
~ Johann von Goethe
True happiness consists in making others happy.
~ Hindu proverb
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
~ Anonymous
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
~ J. PetitSenn
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
~ Irish blessing
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
~ Douglas Jerrold
I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
~ Tom Lehrer
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than on what he ought to expect from them.
~ Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot
I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.
~ Eva Rose Park
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
~ George Eliot
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
In this world we must help one another.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
~ William Barclay