Quotes About Kindness

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

To love one another is to come as close as we ever can to being angels ourselves.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.

You're sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you're almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually, he offered to wake you up himself, but since its five a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.

She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.

Leash my anger calm my words Speak in love and do no hurt

entertaining friends, and using your money to spread largesse, sometimes even in a way that wouldn't touch your emotions.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

When someone says they don't care if you're sexually satisfied and they don't care if you want to go to nice restaurants instead of car races, they're at least indifferent and unkind. He was nice when you were dating and until he got your dad's money.

One was the rule of human nature: You get what you give. That phrase galvanized her. She'd had no idea that she had the right to give her mother only what she received from her—which was precious little.

Why don't you picture pushing away all your defences and just sit with the question 'Why am I still nice to my mother?' And then see what floats into your mind.

sometimes grandparents who are warm and kind may have been far less so when they were parents. People will often mellow in old age.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

What I'm starting to understand, finally, is that the point isn't to help the people who know how best to ask for help. It's to be helpful.

There are people in our lives who are like angels to us...

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.