Quotes About Kindness

Be happy, be smart, be kind, and laugh every day — even if only maniacally

What sticks with me more than even that act of kindness was how my mother talked to me about it... So I asked my mother why we gave those families gifts at Christmas when we ourselves didn't have much. I remember then answering for myself: "It was because we felt sorry for them, right?" "We do not feel sorry for them," my mother said sternly, "We understand how they feel.

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve, and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.

Can you hear me, Emmett Crane? You were my first real friend, the first person I really knew, who knew me too, so it doesn't surprise me that I want to say to you the very same things you said to me. Thank you. You saved me from drowning. Because of you, things are better.

Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.

How come you're always so mean? --Howie Katelnikof

When others are happy, be happy with them. If they are sad, share their sorrow. —Romans 12:15

One last thing, Miss Paige." She turned and gazed fondly at him, at his eyes, drooping now, that he was trying so hard to keep open. "Yes?" "This is a ... rather oppressive house. I know better than anyone what Lucien is like, and I know how homesick you must be, far away from everyone and everything you know and love. But you just remember this.... Any time you start feeling out of place here or unwanted or just need to get away from it all, you know where to find me." His

Miss Leighton." "Lord Charles?" He gave her that special smile that melted everything inside her. "You are an angel. And don't forget it." You

Morninghall was not such an evil man after all. A baffling one, yes. A potentially violent one, yes. An arrogant, intimidating, enigmatic, moody one, yes. But not evil. No man who took pity on a suffering child was evil.

I think you should be nicer to Sir Graham, Majesty," Aisling declared, and sat down on the deck beside Maeve's chair. "After all, he did give you these roses." "And that pretty dress." "And that poem on your breakfast tray." "I think he wrote it himself.

Sometimes to be the bigger person, you gotta be the little guy.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

small thank-you caused people to behave far more generously to a completely different person. This is because thank-yous aren't only expressions of gratitude; they're crucial belonging cues that generate a contagious sense of safety, connection, and motivation.

Overdo Thank-Yous:

Noticing what you like about others more than what you don't is a recipe for happy relationships and happiness overall.

Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?

Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly.

Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them

Altruistic love: giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead. Don't try to increase what they can do for you. Elevate what you can do for them.

Self-compassion begins by replacing searing judgment with basic kindness.

3. Study self-compassion.