Quotes About Kindness

I'm the only one who gives her a whole can of tuna for lunch, and I'm not talking dreck, either. I'm talking Chicken of the Sea, Alex.

Don't be against yourself. There's enough cruelty in the world as it is. Don't make things worse by scapegoating yourself.

There is a need for a better American political class. But for now, there is little apparent demand. Those who care the most often hate the most, and one of their chief methods of discrediting ideological allies with whom they compete is by portraying them as too tolerant of the hated political enemy. Kindness is perceived as weakness. Decency is treated as if it's cowardice. Acts of grace are an unthinkable concession to evil.

Any good that I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.

I don't get revenge. Hurting back just means two people are hurt.

Hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It all sounds very good, but it's a lot easier to say it than to do it.

her husband had been the best sort of partner, one who understood what it meant to respect somebody and love them for who they are and not wish for them to be different, or need them to be different, that had been the key to their long and happy life together, but, also, her husband had been natively cheerful and essentially kind, and those things had helped a lot

Why trample on a flower when you don't need to?

What is ahead of us? Like Pascal, we don't know. "Believers and non-believers stand in the same darkness. Neither sees God." Therefore like Pascal we should wager on life. We should bear ourselves in this world as though we have seen God, be kind to each other, love wisely, and give to our children what we would have wished for ourselves.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

The Bible says when others treat you badly, you're supposed to love them, pray for them, bless them, and do good things for them. If you can't do it because you want to, then you must do it because you're obedient.

You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my Spirit. JOB 10:12 NIV

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew 5:38-39).

Love is not about what we feel for others— it's about what we do for others.

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew

I could blame everyone else for not feeling the pain I felt, or I could feel my own grief without any expectations about how anyone else should feel. I could have gratitude for whatever kindness people extended to me, while recognizing that they could not be expected to share my feelings. This was my tragedy, not theirs. I thought of the Auden poem "Musée des Beaux Arts," about suffering "while someone else is eating or opening a window.

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.