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Quotes About Kindness

In Varenka she saw that it was only necessary to forget oneself and to love others in order to be at peace, happy, and lovely. And such a person Kitty wished to be. Having now clearly understood what was most important, Kitty was not content merely to delight in it, but immediately with her whole should devoted herself to this newly-revealed life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances in which one may deal with human beings without love; and there are no such circumstances.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A saint prayed to God in the following way: "O God, please be kind to evil people as much as you are to kind people. Kind people already feel good, because they are kind." —MUSLIH-UD-DIN SAADI
~ Leo Tolstoy
The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Every kind thing is a virtue. To give water to a thirsty person, or to pick up a stone from a road, or to convince your neighbors and friends that they should be virtuous, or to show a traveler his way, or to smile looking into your neighbor's face—all this is virtue. —MOHAMMED
~ Leo Tolstoy
Es nek? negribu pier?d?t, vienk?rši- es gribu dz?vot; nedar?t ?auna nevienam citam, iz?emot sevi pašu. Uz to man ir ties?bas, vai ne.?
~ Leo Tolstoy
La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin
~ Leo Tolstoy
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Karataev had no attachments, friendships or love, as Pierre understood them; but he loved and lived lovingly with everything that life brought his way, especially other people- not any specific people, but those who were there before his eyes.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Estou dizendo ao senhor. Sempre digo aos senhores funcionários da magistratura - prosseguiu o advogado - que não consigo vê-los sem me sentir grato, porque se eu não estou na prisão, e o senhor também, e todos nós, é apenas graças à bondade deles. Levar cada um de nós à privação dos direitos particulares e a lugares não tão distantes é a coisa mais fácil do mundo.
~ Leo Tolstoy
consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, or simply to pour out your soul to somebody - not know, but when your soul is clear - remember me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, or simply to pour out your soul to somebody - not now, but when your soul is clear - remember me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made him aware that there were such things as other human interests, million miles from his own but no less legitimate.
~ Leo Tolstoy
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
~ Leon Uris
Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.
~ Leona Lewis
So I must say it quickly; Whoever is in your life, those that harm you, those that help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know -- let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook. You are listening to radio resistance.
~ Leonard Cohen
The old are kind The young are hot Love may be blind Desire is not
~ Leonard Cohen
So I must say it quickly: Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know – let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook.
~ Leonard Cohen
Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know – let them off the hook, help them off the hook. Recognize the hook.
~ Leonard Cohen
Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.
~ Leonard Cohen
Blessed are you who speaks to the unworthy.
~ Leonard Cohen
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.
~ Leonard Nimoy