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Quotes About Kindness

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. When
~ Hilary Mantel
You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.
~ Hilary McKay
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
~ Hillary Clinton
MURRY:[Father] Time is kind of a big deal and I'd rather not tick him off. MOLLY: Heh. Tick.
~ Unknown
What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.
~ Unknown
Duniya mein rehna hai toh kaam kar pyare, Haath jod sabko salaam kar pyare, Varna yeh duniya jeene nahi degiKhane nahi degi, peene nahi degi (Do some work if you want to live in this world. Salute everyone and request them. Or else this world won't let you live. It won't let you eat or drink anything )
~ Unknown
He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.
~ Unknown
Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
~ Hindu proverb
Never strike your wife — even with a flower.
~ Hindu proverb
Someone who could shed tears for their friends... could never be rejected from Fairy Tail!
~ Hiro Mashima
It's not a crime! Caring about your friends is not a crime!
~ Hiro Mashima
Only when I save the lives of others do I truly feel as though I am human. Do you only feel that you are human when you take the lives of others?
~ Unknown
The simple rule was never to refuse any one or thing in need. "It's not your job to read their hearts," he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. "Your duty is not to doubt but to give. And don't ask questions at the door. Allow them only to tell you what they came for after they've had tea and something to eat.
~ Hisham Matar
The simple rule was never to refuse any one or thing in need. "It's not your job to read their hearts," he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. "Your duty is not to doubt but to give.
~ Hisham Matar
Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.
~ Hoda Kotb
I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.
~ Holly Black
Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their food with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, not their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise.
~ Holly Black
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
~ Holly Black
A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.
~ Holly Black
Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
~ Holly Black
I love you," Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all. "I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.
~ Holly Black
Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is presents . And in the real world, Santa's not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa's lap.
~ Holly Black
Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As
~ Holly Black
If someone were hitting Aaron over the head, he would thank them for stopping.
~ Holly Black