Quotes About Kindness

Sugarcoat your complaints a little bit, as you would with a good friend whose feelings you don't want to hurt. (Gottman calls this the "soft start-up.")

Ishte si kub, zemërmirë dhe praktik.

Significantly, "compassion" in Luke's Gospel is used only of God (1:78, cf. 1:50, 54) and of Jesus (7:13), and of the two most extraordinary parabolic characters of all: the father of the Prodigal Son (15:20) and the Good Samaritan (10:33).21

If only inflicted pain could be as contagious As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.

God bless you, in case you sneeze.

Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.

Men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give.

Si vives tu vida con compasión, amas a los demás y te dejas guiar por la pura y clara voz del corazón, tu espíritu crecerá.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

If you have succeeded in winning people's hearts by friendliness, simplicity and courtesy, the secret lay in this: that you were not thinking of yourself. Hold fast this mystic power; it is a spark from Heaven.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.

Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?

They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Želimo li promijeniti ljude, moramo ih ljubiti. Naš utjecaj seže samo donde dokle seže naša ljubav.

Our houses are palaces to those who have none.

Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you'd best be quiet." And she remembered it. Miss

I think there's more to God than the big beardy feller in the sky. I know that God is on earth, in people, in good deeds. God is in the big things, and the small things. He's under the fingernails of our daughters, and he's in all the kindnesses we show people. I know that what people call 'God's work' can be called 'lightening the burden' for another human being. My kind of God might be a bit different from yours, maybe that's all.

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.