Quotes About Kindness

Treat people with kindness because behind every face is a story that could use a little more love.

but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Our people say that if you thank a man for what he has done he will have strength to do more.

those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

And besides do not our people say that he is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger?

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

Sometimes I believe we would all be better off if we always treated people like this was the last time we were ever going to see them

But I know well that no good ever comes from mistaking manners for kindness.

And just as there is random horror-murder,suicide,child abuse,car accidents.......there is also indiscriminate kindness. Not merely miracles,though I have experienced them.But simple human connection,either brokered by an angel or sourced by one. That is why I try to encourage people to be receptive to that new person who seems to have appeared in their life out of nowhere.

Harry's Sixth Rule. Harry's Sixth Rule reads, in its entirety: Care. Care

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Human kindness is deeply subversive to totalitarian creeds, which seek to thwart all compassion toward those deemed unworthy of moral consideration, those branded as internal or external enemies.

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. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.13

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.