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Quotes About Kindness

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
~ Lionel Shriver
Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]
~ Lionel Shriver
No obstante, incluso cuando los médicos se hacían los amables, no solían controlar el alcance de su capacidad para serlo. Por muy gentilmente que se expresaran, más de un mensaje de los que se veían obligados a comunicar era cruel, y si no, una mentira y, por tanto, aún más cruel. Personalmente Shep no entendía por qué alguien querría ser médico.
~ Lionel Shriver
Maybe the greatest favor a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
~ Lionel Shriver
As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
Girls will often set aside their own wishes to help a needy friend.
~ Unknown
People don't do nice things for people who are mean to them. Better for your daughter to learn this lesson before she leaves your home than after she is out on her own.
~ Unknown
Wer ein Menschenleben rettet, handelt, als würde er die ganze Welt retten.
~ Unknown
Trying hard and being a good person didn't always mean good things would happen to you. But it did mean that others might try on your behalf.
~ Lisa Graff
He understood that being of service to others takes you out of the smallness of your own issues and into the bigger realm of the heart.
~ Unknown
The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.
~ Unknown
softly, "with the little ones. Make it fair." Meg was about to complain but then she took
~ Lisa Jewell
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)
~ Lisa Kleypas
You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Daisy," Westcliff said gently, "most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without Daisy Bowman in it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I never lie for the sake of kindness," he murmured, smiling. "One of my many flaws.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.
~ Lisa Kleypas
As she had once told Kathleen, sometimes one had to love something before it became lovable
~ Lisa Kleypas
That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.
~ Julie Plec
I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.
~ Robert Kazinsky
There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very interesting guy who would literally rent a passenger van and would take the poor kids from the ghettos and black neighborhoods down to the sporting goods store and just spend money. Buy them whatever they want.
~ Orlando Jones