Quotes About Kindness

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

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 to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

We not only need to be willing to give, but also to be open to receiving from others.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

If thine enemy- be hungry, give him bread to eat.

Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'