Quotes About Kindness

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

Love isn't about how a person makes me feel but how I treat them.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

He cannot act except with kindness, he cannot feel anything but forgiveness; every movement he makes, everything he does, speaks of his love, but not his lips.

The one who is happy is he who is ready to be friends with all. His outlook on life is friendly. He is not only friendly to persons, but also to objects and conditions.

There is not anything one should not be ready to tolerate, and there is nobody whom one should not forgive. Never doubt those whom you trust; never hate those whom you love; never cast down those whom you once raise in your estimation. Wish to make friends with everyone you meet; make an effort to gain the friendship of those you find difficult; become indifferent to them only of you cannot succeed in your effort. Never wish to break the friendship once made.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Be the difference in someone's life that you know you can make.

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.

We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.

Here's the thing: being nice is worthless if you're just going to feel resentful about it in the end.

We're called to speak to people to whom we often don't feel like speaking; to refrain from surrounding ourselves with people "just like us," whose thoughts, ideas, and actions we can more or less manage and control; to share not just with the poor, but with the rich, the mediocre, the irritating, the Republicans, the Democrats, because we never know who the poor are. We never know whose heart is hemorrhaging. We never know who needs a kind work, a smile, a helping hand.

If the snow keeps me home from an important meeting, I'll take a walk in it. Shovel my neighbor's stoop. Then build a snowman at the end of the driveway. When was the last time I did that?

Our hearts are every bit as malleable as stardust turned to gold. Loving one another polishes them.

God asks for nothing but sharing of their love... what more do you want?

To fill the earth with love release your thoughts into positive streams.

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.

Friends are one of life's richest blessings.

Happiness is about doing something good in this world," She says finally. "It comes to finding what you we're meant to do, and doing it.