Quotes About Kindness

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

It loves more readily than it hates.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer.

For if there was any kindness in slavery it was dependent on the docility of the slaves; any slave who was unwilling to be a slave broke through the myth of paternalism and benevolence, and brought down on himself the violence inherent in the system. A

Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one. There is good reason to think that we cannot live without it. Kind is obviously related to kin, but also to race and to nature. In the Middle Ages kind and nature were synonyms. Equal, in the famous phrase of the Declaration of Independence, could be well translated by these terms: All men are created kin, or of a kind, or of the same race or nature.

Ask yourself:...Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth...

It is a serious fault in a man to dislike a boy

Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.

So what was still and dark wakes up, Becomes intelligent, moves, names Itself by hunger and by kind, Walks, swims, flies, cries, calls, speaks, or sings. We all are praising, praying to The light we are, but cannot know.

The dark Again has prayed the light to come Down into it, to animate And move it in its heaviness. So what was still and dark wakes up, Becomes intelligent, moves, names Itself by hunger and by kind...

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

The Georgians were not noted for their kindness to animals and children. Many children were forced to work in the mills, scale chimneys, beg on the streets or live by prostitution from the age of ten or less

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.