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Quotes About Kindness

When you feel the pain of life, remember that somebody out there is feeling the pain of hunger, living without a mother/father, and abuse. Live your life and make it the best that you can because you may be gone the next ten seconds...
~ Unknown
If you're having a bad hair day, try not to complain...there's a child out there with cancer who would kill just to have hair.
~ Unknown
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
~ St Francis of Assisi
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
~ Thomas Hughes
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
~ William Shakespeare
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
~ Mother Teresa
I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.
~ Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.
~ Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
~ Ann Brashares
It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.
~ Helen Prejean
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
~ Anonymous, The Dhammapada
People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.
~ Lee Smith, On Agate Hill
A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
...I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.
~ Unknown
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all
~ Unknown
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
~ Janine Turner
The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
~ Ivan Turgenev
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
~ C. S. Lewis
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
~ Baha'u'llah