Quotes About Kindness

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.

Thare iz a grate deal ov charity in this world so koldly rendered that it fairly hurts, it iz like lifting a drowning man out ov the water bi the hair ov the hed, and then letting him drop on the ground.

Politeness iz often wasted, but it iz a good and cheap mistake tew make.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.

I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness, and sorrow.