Quotes About Kindness

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

For so long people judged me and when people meet me they always say 'oh my god you're actually nice!'

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

Whenever you see someone who's having a rough day, it's one thing to ask if they're okay, because most people would just walk by. That can be life-changing to that person who's going through whatever they're going through. I'm that kind of person, so that's been my training for acting: just caring about people.

If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

Don't hustle old people.

As I get older, people do come up to me just to give me a hug.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.

There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.

Gratitude is important. One has to look beyond oneself to see that while there may be people who are far better off, one has been given so much more than so many.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

I'm an open book. People seem to like people that are very open - accepting, and not rude.

People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.