Quotes About Kindness

I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.

To me, Valentine's Day is not merely limited to a lover but speaks of universal love.

I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

When you help someone else, not only do they benefit, but you reaffirm to yourself that you have something of value to give them, and you help to strengthen and nurture a bond with an individual that you're helping.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

It's about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That's the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Zadaka." That was it. The word literally meant a righteous gift. It had been the favorite term of Ezra's teacher, an invitation for the listener to do a certain thing, not to help the one asking, but rather to help himself. A zadaka was, in its purest form, an opportunity to bless the doer through a godly act.

Hospitality in the North is as much a part of life as eating and sleeping. They might not have much, but whatever they have is yours.

Jesus never taught revolution, the kind with swords and battles and bloodshed. He talked about a revolution of love. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust

from John. 'My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Chauncey Starr expressed it, "We are loath to let others do unto us what we happily do to ourselves.