Quotes About Kindness

Be a friend on whose chest your friends could freely lay their heads, whose shoulders they could joyfully stand, and in whose presence they could happily run to.

When you become the real friend you are to others, you automatically become invaluable in their lives.

Let friendship with you become meaningful by solving a problem for your friends.

Every friendship has its own blessings.

The voice of friendship is not words; but action.

Be a real friend to people; it's the only way you can be affected by the feelings of their infirmities and prove your real love for them.

Love will never cost you anything unless you first become a true friend or have a friendship heart.

Be nice to people. On phone and in-person. Don't wait to know a person before you treat them well; treat them well because you're a good person. That's how true friends live.

Don't let bad experiences, darken your mind and heart against people God brings into your life to bless you. Be a true friend always.

Have a good heart towards strangers and new friends.

You're both a stranger and a friend. You're a friend to those who know you and a stranger to those who don't know you yet. So live by the Golden Rule.

THE RANGER'S VOW LOYAL, BRAVE, KIND AND TRUE— KEEPER OF THE OLD AND NEW— I GUARD THE WILD, DEFEND THE WEAK, MARK THE PATH, AND VIRTUE SEEK. FOREST SPIRITS HEAR ME NOW AS I SPEAK MY RANGER'S VOW.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time. He loathed the poverty that was all around and hated the smug indifference towards it from so many of the people he had to work with. He thought of Mrs Litvinov, a woman without two brass tacks to rub together, but more capacity for kindness than anyone very much in Whitehall.  Mrs Litvinov and her kind ought to run the country, he thought. And what a better country it might be.

21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

That anything should live, grow, evolve, reflect, respond to beauty, reproduce its kind... or make further beauty of another kind. Oh, wonderful.

Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted. How? Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. —EPHESIANS 4:31-32

Sin easily hides where there is no heat of trials and afflictions. In times of prosperity and success, even a wicked man will seem kind and generous. Under the heat of trials, however, the impurities surface.

Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.' Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

he could never understand the enjoyment some people got from hurting others. And that, he told Anshel, applied to chickens too.

a story of a boy who had started out with love and decency in his heart but had found himself corrupted by power. The story of a boy who had committed crimes with which he would have to live for ever; a boy who had hurt people who loved him and been a party to the deaths of those who only ever showed him kindness; who had sacrificed his right to his own name and would have to spend a lifetime trying to earn it back again.

You know, some day, when you're all older,' he said, looking around the room, 'you're going to have troubles of your own and you'll have friends who are going through tough times. Maybe it'll even be one of your own children. And when that happens, you'll look back at the way you're all behaving now and wonder whether you might not have been able to show a little more kindness.

Nor do we believe that we will not matter if we don't give care to others.

gave half-a-crown to a beggar because I saw him yawn; he was a fellow-sufferer.