Quotes About Kindness

understood. Blue highlight | Location: 2,477 I smile at everyone because I'm afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don't do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I'm talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia.

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

after all, hospitality was a virtue, one of the highest in Mamma's esteem.

But it did make me realize that I shouldn't go around judging people who have stringy hair, because maybe they have a very good reason for having hair like that.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

The errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.

in [...] gefährlichen Dingen [...] sind die Irrtümer, welche aus Gutmütigkeit entstehen, gerade die schlimmsten.

Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.

Such watering pots,' Lord Ragsdale commented as he handed each of them ahandkerchief, then pressed a third to his eye. 'See here, you have set me a bad example.' He grinned at Tim. 'But I will practice economy and cry out of only one eye.

E' cattiva la gente che non ha provato il dolore, perchè quando si prova il dolore, non si può più voler male a nessuno

we are the reflection of the idea of ourselves that we receive back from our kind.

The human heart is bigger than the world.

Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.