Quotes About Kindness

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me

Compassion arises from inside you - it is already present within you like a seed that needs to be cultivated. If you feed and water it, your compassion will grow - and so will you.

Self-compassion helps you recognize and soothe painful emotions.

When we bring self-compassion into everyday life, we learn to be kind to ourselves.

Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce back from difficult experiences and to overcome self-criticism.

Just like a weak muscle, compassion strengthens with training. Almost anyone can learn to be more compassionate and kinder with themselves and others.

Practice loving-kindness and compassion by sending warmth, friendliness, and goodwill to everyone with whom you come in contact.

With increased presence comes kindness and compassion - the nurse's calling cards.

Communicating with awareness and kindness, and listening without judgement, are at the heart of good nursing practice.

Just try to be angry with someone who fed you something delicious.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Al entregarle a Trinidad su abrigo, bastón y sombrero, le sonríe con esa amabilidad democrática de quien está acostumbrado a seducir a pobres, ricos, chulapos y marquesas, esclavos y criados, perros y gatos, a todos por igual. —Buenas

mil gracias de todo corazón.

The poet Maya Angelou famously said people will forget what you said and what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

I scorned him for huddling by the fire, and he offered to share his tea. I reviled him for his cowardice at the kai's lair, and he made me soup. I ridiculed his noble ancestry, and he laughed at himself and cleaned my hearth. I drove him unmercifully in his schooling, and he devoured it as if I'd gifted him with jewels.

But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace.

I tried to think of something equally kind to say, but he seemed to have used up all the eloquence in the room.

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

You are speaking of something sacred, something holy. Love is patient and kind. It does not envy or boast. It casts out pride, selfishness and anger. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres and never fails.

A friend is someone who hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.