Quotes About Kindness

In judging of others, let us always think the best, and employ the spirit of charity and candor. But in judging of ourselves, we ought to be exact and severe.

we have to think about what level of mercilessness we feel comfortable with.

He had experienced only kindness and forgiveness. Actually, it wasn't kindness and forgiveness. It was something much better than that. It was nothing. He experienced nothing.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

if you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win

It was clear to everyone that day, and in the months that followed, that Patty's greatest warming influence was on Walter himself. Now, instead of speeding by his neighbors in his angry Prius, he stopped to lower his window and say hello. On weekends, he brought Patty over to the patch of clear ice that the neighborhood kids maintained for hockey and instructed her in skating, which, in a remarkably short time, she became rather good at.

With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.

only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.

It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

We need much bigger pockets I thought as I lay in my bed counting off the seven minutes that it takes a normal person to fall asleep. We need enormous pockets pockets big enough for our families and our friends and even the people who aren't on our lists people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for borough and for cities a pocket that could hold the universe.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!

Cruelty: Not only the willful causing of unnecessary suffering, but the indifference to it.

Make us better than we are. Make us good.

But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole.

La crueldad depende de que uno comprenda que está siendo cruel y de las posibilidades que tiene a su alcance para evitarla.

That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!

I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you. She cracked up a bit and said, People never tell me that. I bet they do. She cracked up a bit more. They don't. Then you hang out with the wrong people. You might be right about that. Because you're incredibly beautiful.

Everyone could know what everyone else felt, and we could be more careful with each other, because you'd never want to tell a person whose skin was purple that you're angry at her for being late, just like you would want to pat a pink person on the back and tell him, "Congratulations!

me, not only because it seemed true, but because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don't hurt family members. We don't hurt friends or strangers. We don't even hurt upholstered furniture. My not having thought to include animals in that list didn't make them the exceptions to it.