Quotes About Kindness

I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.

My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Why can´t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

There should never be enough 'going on' that we forget about the needs of others. That, essentially, is the essence of goodness.

To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one

Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?

To Sandy Violette and Caspian Dennis, for taking care

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

My Dad used to say that if every man just took care of his own family, the world would be a much better place.

If almost everyone is in favor of feeding the hungry, the politician may find it in his interest to do so. But, under those circumstances, the politician is unnecessary: some kind soul will give the hungry man a meal anyway. If the great majority is against the hungry man, some kind soul among the minority still may feed him—the politician will not.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

Whenever you notice that you are mulling over your own problems, knotting energy into your body as tension, take that energy and create a gift for others.

If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of those whom your actions affect.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.

true decency was very different from pathological generosity, because pathological generosity did not take into account the feelings of the people who were the object of the generosity?

i wish you way more than luck

As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.

As everyone is well aware, ti is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.