Quotes About Kindness

I do think I'll put in a good word about Gillian with some of the ladies I know here in Town. She shouldn't be made to suffer just because you and I do not get along with her parents." Gabriel smiled. "You have far too tender a heart, my heart. Forever trying to help others. If only Gillian knew she has a new champion in you." "I shall know." Esme moved into his arms as the music began. "Sometimes just knowing is more than enough.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

The secret to winning this culture game is to treat others how they want to be treated, not how you would want to be treated.

Learning to live with wounded places is a mission threaded with find¬ing and making beauty. If I'm open to the likelihood of it, I can always find beauty under any circumstances, whether it's in a kindly gesture from a stranger or the first shoot of greenery shoving up through the waste of a calamitous event. Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times.

And I realize there's no shortage of wickedness in the world," said Mr. Benedict, with a significant look at Reynie, "but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good?

but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good? Think of that young librarian, Sophie, who made certain you escaped. Think of S.Q., who risked my brother's wrath to make me more comfortable. Think of Captain Noland, and Joe Shooter, and all the others – even strangers – who were prepared to sacrifice their safety, perhaps even their lives, on our behalf. That's something, is it not?

Reynie had helped Constance with her mittens (she was close to tears trying to get her thumbs in their places)

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

So many times in life we try to protect what we value, but we are doubly blessed when we give it away. Have you given away your love today? Have you shared your faith? If not, what are you waiting for?

Tips for Southern Visitors, No. 5 People will be quite kind to you when they realise you are from the South, because you can't help it.

Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Whether it's words of encouragement or simple gestures to show appreciation. Remember, all supports goes a long way. Some things may not mean much to you but the world to someone else.

More important though—live for others, just as much as for yourself. If you do that, their strength becomes, in some mysterious way, yours. There is always somebody, somewhere, who needs you. Never, for one minute, ever lose sight of that. If they are not with you, not near you now—go and find them, even if it means voyaging thousands of miles to do it.

Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Some are kinder than others, or braver than others, and some of them do really cruel things. But everyone has both good thoughts and bad thoughts and reasons for what they do, reasons that they believe are important' (Moonwatcher)

but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

I could fix them. I could do it right now … I could enchant that bandage so when she takes it off, she could see for the first time in her life.