Quotes About Kindness

Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields half-sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know

The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.

When a simpleton abused him, Buddha listened in silence; but when the man had finished, Buddha asked him: "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" The man answered: "To him who offered it." "My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request you to keep it for yourself

To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . .

It would be better to abandon our overrapid development of the intellect, and to aim rather at training the heart and the affections

Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole. Probably all three doctrines must be combined to find a perfect ethics; but can we doubt which of the elements is fundamental? X. Criticism

People are kind to one another in the real world, even if it's a meaningless kindness. It goes unremarked upon. But it shouldn't. We are always much angrier on our phones than we are in the real world.

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer..

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too.

Every kindness to another is a little death in the divine image.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight; Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

It was ... a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness

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People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.