Quotes About Kindness

The planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.

Remember that just so much are you adding to the pleasure or misery of other people's days… Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. – George Merriam

Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There

each of us is here to build houses, one brick at a time. Every time we think a loving thought, or do a good thing for someone, we add another brick to the wall. Every time we have a hateful thought, or hurt someone, we take a brick away.

One thing I'll have to face about myself, I suppose, is that while I've always loved mankind in general, I have been less than generous to some of those I've been involved with in particular.

the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who's generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.

Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news.

The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

It's not right that gentleness meet horror.

My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere.

When you are with a fellow man, say to yourself, "I am going to fulfill the commandment of 'love your neighbor as yourself' with this very person now." For the Baal Shem Tov taught that love your neighbor meant that you are to love the person you are with at the moment.

Greet everyone warmly, and greet them first. Do not ignore others or pretend that you do not see them. The rabbis teach: Receive everyone warmly and with joy. (Avot 1:15, 3:16) Always be first in greeting all men with the blessing of peace. (Avot 4:22)