Quotes About Kindness

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

ponderando os seus serviços e seguindo a suavidade do seu espírito, queria poupar-lhe a vida e contentar-se em tirar-lhe os olhos.

that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

El verdadero amor no es otra cosa que el deseo inevitable de ayudar al otro para que sea quien es. - Jorge Bucay

Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that over an infinitely long span of time, all things happen to all men. As reward for his past and future virtues, every man merited every kindness—yet also every betrayal, as reward for his past and future iniquities.

Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know...And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation... The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.

The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of lovingkindness, that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents," wrote the second-century church father Tertullian to explain what made the faith attractive. "'See,' they say, 'how they love one another!'" (Barry 1985, 57).

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.