Quotes About Kindness

The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred, making specific supplications that mention this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next.

Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, "There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.

When paying charity, for example, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

If one wishes not to incur the wrath of God, then one should not be wrathful or angry with people unjustly. Similarly, the Prophet said that whoever makes someone's path to knowledge easy, God will make his or her path to Paradise easy. And whoever covers the shortcomings of his brother, God will cover his shortcomings in the Hereafter. God, the All-Wise, placed this special reciprocity in this world.

An Islamic ethic for the wealthy is that they exude magnanimity, generosity, and the demeanor of lenience.

A hadith recounts that a wealthy individual would instruct his servants when collecting money on his behalf, "If [the debtors] do not have the means, tell them their debts are absolved." When this wealthy man died without any good deeds save his largesse with debtors, according to the hadith, God said to His angels, "This man was forgiving of people's transgressions against him, and I'm more worthy of forgiving transgressions. Therefore, I forgive him.

Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give

There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language

Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Sometimes Dr Reichhardt would say, 'We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Großmütig darf man nur zu einem großmütigen Feind sein, ein kleinlicher Feind hält Großmut immer für Schwäche.

We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don't care. We don't see. We just keep pushing.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his "agreeable affability," "unassuming manner," and "polite attentions to all orders and ranks"...

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.