Quotes About Kindness

Christmas is a condition of the heart.

If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.

Mine said I'd be good as new if I did something for someone else... (she) swore that showing kindness to others was the cure for any kind of unhappiness.

Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.

when we fail to be kind and loving, then we fail to be wise.

HAPPIEST ARE THE PEOPLE WHO GIVE THE MOST HAPPINESS TO OTHERS.

Rule #2, Cultivate New Friendships.

a smile that would melt concrete.

The best vitamin for a Christian is B1.

You're beautiful." And I meant it.

perhaps, in giving of myself, I would find the joy Paul had promised. And maybe, given time, it would be possible for me to find my way back to life.

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

At the end, in Harry's handiwork, there's nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes – it's a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learning to love, Harry liked to say, is really about learning to live. Perhaps everyday affection seems a small facet of love. Perhaps, though, it is the modest, steady responses that see us through day after day, that stretch into a life of close and loving relationships.

If another person is friendly to me, I find it easy to be friendly back. However, I don't wait to make sure the other person is friendly before I'm friendly in return.

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choice but to trust that the man holding your tire iron, cussing at your old lug nuts, is a deeply kind human after all.

I recognized that I was small and soft; I wanted to believe in people - that they were kind and good, and given the chance, everything would turn out okay - but bad things do happen, and sometimes the best you can do is swim through them, focus, and years later say, Ya, I know that feeling, when some smart ass asks whether you've ever been so scared you wanted to pee your pants.

Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give," he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.

Najsretniji je onaj ?ovjek koji je u?inio sretnima najviše ljudi.

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ? Denis Waitley

Sometimes you just have to extend a little grace to people. Not because they deserve it - but because we don't deserve it either.

I often said the wrong thing–wake up, shut up, grow up. These are the wrong things to say when people are sad about some minor cruelty or sentimental incident.

Lamont, like the judge?" He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.