Quotes About Kindness

We know love by its fruits. Love gives: It listens, it caresses, it nourishes, it nurtures. It does whatever is needed of it.

La solidaridad es la ternura de los pueblos

yo os pregunto, señor podestá, si él ha tomado de mí siempre lo que ha necesitado y le ha gustado, ¿qué debía hacer yo (o debo) con lo que me sobra? ¿Debo arrojarlo a los perros? ¿No es mucho mejor servírselo a un hombre noble que me ama más que a sí mismo que dejar que se pierda o se estropee?

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Umana cosa è l'aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra' quali, se alcuno mai n'ebbe bisogno, o gli fu caro, o già ne ricevette piacere, io son uno di quegli.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Essere felici è già una bella cosa ma fare felici gli altri col fatto di essere felici noi è la cosa più bella del mondo.

Try to distinguish ignorance from malice. And keep your animus for malice.

When unbalanced, the individual gives offence and takes offence and thus adds negativity to the world. When balanced, the individual takes love and gives love and adds love and light to the world.

Daphne, who, of course, is full of the milk of human kindness and drips it about rather after the manner of a punctured cocoanut — that is to say, where it is neither expected nor desired.

He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.

O]ne should always treat one's animals well. All else will follow.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When you're a child people's cruelty makes you cry. When you're an adult it's their kindness.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

I did not know death then, that he is no more to be feared than the man on the black horse. He can be kind, time teaches us. He will lend a hand. Grace is his comrade, memory his foe. In the end he prevails, but triumphs not, so long as we remember.

It's never too late. We've come around to a better way of life with showing love and giving love. That's what matters.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

whenever we're offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.

Helianos wanted to accept everything as it appeared on the surface; at least to interpret everything as favorably as he could, as mere kindliness, a wonderful improvement and a great blessing.

The look he gave Helianos was one of perfect candor, a little unsure of himself, a little sentimental, seeming to hope that kindness would be repaid with kindness.

When you have the ability and desire to help someone, the only moral choice is to act.