Quotes About Kindness

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

Kindness) 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. -David Levithan (Every Day)

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

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.

Don't underestimate the gift of someone who smiles every time they see you.

Being a comfort is itself comforting. Having someone find a place on your shoulder and be able to rest.

I can't stand being mean. People playing games. I want to guard myself against it, but I make a shitty guard for my own heart. I would rather lose the game than play it. I would rather be hurt than be mean. Because I can live with myself if I'm hurt. I don't think I could live with myself if I were mean.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen

All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.

I look around me and see all the problems. I know people aren't living the gospel. I know they are too busy. The world is too loud. The sounds you hear in the hall or not the substance of love and kindness. I hear gossip, I hear spite, I hear fear. I do not hear the gospel. Except inside me, I can feel it there.

the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

If you want to be loved, be lovable. It's a good place to start.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.

who the hell wants to be the one to tell a kid that santa claus isn't real. it's the truth, right? but you're still a jerk for saying it.