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Quotes About Kindness

Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure of kindness from another person. Don't you think it's a sad story?
~ Natsuo Kirino
What would love do now?
~ Neal Donald Walsch
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.
~ Neal Shusterman
For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.
~ Neal Shusterman
You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone. All right, then, if there's no one you love, then pick someone who needs to hear what you have to say.
~ Neal Shusterman
But it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?
~ Neal Shusterman
it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?
~ Neal Shusterman
Is it so strange to want to give of yourself totally and completely? If that is what's in Miracolina's heart, why should it be denied her?
~ Neal Shusterman
Don't tell Roland," he says. "The only reason he's being so nice to the two of you is because he believes in the sanctity of the nuclear family.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then she offered Citra ice cream that was the best she'd ever tasted.
~ Neal Shusterman
In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved.
~ Neal Shusterman
Les gens peuvent se conduire en monstres. Que ce soit dans leurs actes ou dans leur nature, peu importe. Le résultat est le même. — Alyssa
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.
~ Neal Shusterman
I would never hurt one person's chances to help another--even if that other person was someone I cared about.
~ Neal Shusterman
So Jeri reached out a hand to help Greyson up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and found that even after Greyson was on his feet, Jeri didn't want to let go.
~ Neal Shusterman
I won't steal from her. I would never hurt one person's chances to help another—even if that other person was someone I cared about.
~ Neal Shusterman
We're not all evil, the man says. Neither are we,, Jeevan responds.
~ Neal Shusterman
Although I accepted her thanks graciously and felt good about it in the moment, I had trouble sleeping that night. To this day, I still can't understand why.
~ Neal Shusterman
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life's as kind as you let it be.
~ Charles Bukowski