Quotes About Kindness

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

To love is to act.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.

There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always.

Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.

So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God. But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions.

To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables

You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name but whether he has an affliction.