Quotes About Kindness

10. Finally, love yourself now—don't wait until you get it right.

When your heart is full of love for yourself, then you have so much to share with others.

Compliments are gifts of prosperity. Learn to accept them graciously.

is even better to accept the compliment and return it so the giver feels as though he or she has received a gift. It is a way of keeping the flow of good going. Rejoice in the abundance

Mientras menos te ames, haces que amarte sea más difícil para los demás; mientras más te ames, más reconoces cuánto te aman.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

Three Pines is a state of mind. When we choose tolerance over hate. Kindness over cruelty. Goodness over bullying. When we choose to be hopeful, not cynical. Then we live in Three Pines.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness.

Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What're you going to focus on? What's unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?" Stephen tapped the boy's chest. "The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

It's so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It's natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too.

Is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said?

When someone shoots at us, we return fire," said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. "But it's equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well,

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.

Gabri and Myrna were very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. People rich in money might belong at the Inn and Spa, but those rich in other ways belonged in the tiny village of Three Pines. Here, kindness was the real currency.

That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness and kindness went together. There was not one without the other.

the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He'd turned heaven into hell.

She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.

Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind." Chapter 1 · Page 10 · Location 202

Hope itself wasn't necessarily kind. Or a good thing.

Kindness beats cruelty.

But never, ever mistake kindness for weakness.