Quotes About Kindness

I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it. Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach. Can I tell you a secret?" Yes, tell me all your secrets Denis kept to himself. Beth leaned in, whispered: "All boys are pathetic.

never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Inevitably, being right will become more important than being kind, gracious, or loving. Thinning the herd will become more important than expanding the kingdom. Unity will take a back seat to uniformity.3

We're supposed to weep with those who weep. We're not supposed to smother them with banal truisms, out-of-context Bible verses, shallow advice, and links to our favorite podcasts.3 The

If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings others.

Charity should always be a constant.

ALWAYS give an autograph when somebody asks you.

and I sometimes wonder if every living thing doesn't need kind words as much as sunshine and water.

Maud, listen to me. It isn't wrong to be affectionate. And it isn't funny, either.

True friends, regardless of their age, lift you up and make you a better person than you were before. They help make things right.

Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I've been doing wrong with her—what I've been doing wrong in how I've been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she'd understand she could count on me. But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

Today, my rule is not to say anything to myself—even silently—that I wouldn't say to a friend.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

Todos tenemos derecho a ser amados alguna vez.

No hagas a los demás lo que no te gustaría que te hicieran a ti.

The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It's found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.

As the train pushed off for Yokohama, the POWs' last sight of Naoetsu was a broken line of Japanese, the few civilian guards and camp staffers who had been kind to them, standing along the side of the track. Their hands were raised in salute.

maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Girls can be more bitchy and mean, and Aspie girls don't play that game. They are loyal, trustworthy, and kind. They just don't do bitchiness, and they find it very hard to understand why girls would actually enjoy being so cruel to each other and so destructive.

All that is good, we are. Love and compassion radiate from our very being; we need only remember.

Allow your heart to overflow with gratitude, and so, fill the world with Love.

Be brave, be kind, be honest, be true— remember these things are alive within you.