Quotes About Kindness

No," Winter grumbled. "Thank you," Qibli said, entirely too sincerely for Winter. "Well," Winter said, "I would have done the same thing for anyone, you know." "I know," Qibli said. "I like that about you.

This is going to sound weird, Moon offered, but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

Sundew saw Cricket flinch and Blue gently rest his tail on hers.

Nowhere does this tendency toward artificial harmony show itself more than in mission-driven nonprofit organizations, most notably churches. People who work in those organizations tend to have a misguided idea that they cannot be frustrated or disagreeable with one another. What they're doing is confusing being nice with being kind.

Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

Tell the kind truth.

And they don't worry about whether the potential client will take advantage of their generosity; they know that for every client that does, nine others will appreciate their generosity and start to see themselves as a client even before they formally decide to become one.

He found Jack well into his dinner and sat down beside him. 'Will I confess a grave sin? he asked. 'Do, by all means,' said Jack, looking at him kindly. 'But if you managed to commit a grave sin between the gunroom and here you have a wonderful capacity for evil.

No, no, no,' said Stephen. 'I deprecate violence. My part is to heal rather than to kill; or at least to kill with kindly intent.

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

Passing on the good news of Jesus is not equivalent to saying "I'm better than you." Rather, as the famous saying goes, it's like one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa

Most nice people know what is bad in this world, and they feel horrible for those who are wounded and broken. But they don't have the guts to act in any meaningful way.

Jesus wasn't always nice. I'm nice. I'm not like Jesus.

Self-sacrificial acts that are motivated by true love always have the other person's best interest at heart

acting nice feels natural—so natural that it's hard to detect its hidden, selfish payoff: It allows women to avoid uncomfortable but necessary conflict

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind. —Elva

He was a friend to all things wild, and the wild things repaid him with their friendship.

Social systems require the same level of care, attention, and kindness as ecosystems.

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

MOST TRAVEL, AND CERTAINLY the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. This risky suspension of disbelief is often an experience freighted with anxiety. But what's the alternative? Usually there is none.

That seemed to be the theme in the Deep South: kindness, generosity, a welcome.

There are three things I never saw her do: tell a lie, be unkind, or arrive on time.

Lines from William Blake's Jerusalem came to mind: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.