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Quotes About Kindness

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
~ James Baldwin
Don't let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to understand. The world's already bitter enough, we got to try to be better than the world.
~ James Baldwin
Men do not like to be protected, it emasculates them. This is what black men know, it is the reality they have lived with; it is what white men do not want to know. It is not a pretty thing to be a father and be ultimately dependent on the power and kindness of some other man for the well-being of your house.
~ James Baldwin
We are happy, even, that we have food for Daniel, who eats peacefully, not knowing that we are laughing, but sensing that something wonderful has happened to us, which means that wonderful things happen, and that maybe something wonderful will happen to him. It's wonderful, anyway, to be able to help a person to have that feeling.
~ James Baldwin
what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?
~ James Baldwin
We are happy, even, that we have food enough for Daniel, who eats peacefully, not knowing that we are laughing, but sensing that something wonderful has happened to us, which means that wonderful things happen, and that maybe something wonderful will happen to him. It's wonderful, anyway, to be able to help a person to have that feeling.
~ James Baldwin
I will smile at you when you wake up.
~ James Baldwin
His courtesy is as real as her trouble.
~ James Baldwin
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
~ James Boswell
In building his company and living his life, Hewlett adhered to a simple motto that he oft repeated: "Never stifle a generous impulse.
~ James C. Collins
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?
~ James Clavell
It's only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.
~ James Clavell
I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.
~ James Clavell
Malayan. It means 'ashamed.'" He smiled to himself. It was a contraction of puki mahlu. Mahlu ashamed, puki a Golden Gulley. Malays grant feelings to that part of a woman: hunger, sadness, kindness, rapaciousness, hesitancy, shame, anger—anything and everything.
~ James Clavell
What else is there to do in this world but love other people?
~ James E. Shapiro
Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and others.
~ James Finley
Compassion forms the essential bond between seeking God in meditation and all forms of social justice. For the more we are transformed in compassion, the more we are impelled to act with compassion toward others.
~ James Finley
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good. (James Frey, pg.38)
~ James Frey
I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.
~ James Frey
Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you.
~ James Frey
riches have never made people great but love does it every day—we
~ James Gleick
Little Richard played my uncle on 'Full House.' He's fabulous. I remember him being incredibly kind to me. I just remember him being super, super nice.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I'd like to believe that I'm a good son, good brother, good uncle, good friend and a good human being.
~ Sajid Khan