Quotes About Kindness

It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

Mother knows you don't have to be unkind to someone in order to exploit them.

I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. "No, no!" she said. "Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie had done to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed.

Now there, Charles,' said Chrestomanci, 'you have an excellent example quite apart from rights and wrongs, of why it is such a bad idea to do things to people. Everyone is now sorry for Simon. Which is not what you want at all, is it?

If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.

It's a funny thing, Jan went on, she's not a child, she's not stupid, but her relationship with other people tends to be very naïve; she believes that everyone is honest and kind. Punia knows that there are bad people around her, too, she recognizes them from a distance. But she really can't believe that they may hurt

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

There are few things that cannot be put right by love, and there is no shortage of that here.

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Her quiet and kind listening had made it possible to speak his thoughts aloud, and sometimes it was only when he spoke his thoughts that he knew he had them. It was surprising how a man's mind might remain half in shadow until the right confidant appeared, and Maud had been that confidant.

Oh, my poor child." I felt the touch of Miss Winter's hand on my shoulder, and while I cried over the corpses of my broken words, her hand remained there, lightly.

Aurelius Alphonse Love.

Armstrong] had found the line that separated humans from the animal kingdom to be a porous one, and all the things that people though unique to them--intelligence, kindness, communication--he had seen in his pigs, his horse, even the rooks that hopped ad strutted amongst his cows. And then there was this: the methods he used on animals generally bore fruit when applied to people too. He could usually win them round in the end.

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Mr. Dearly wasn't exactly handsome but he had the kind of face you don't get tired of.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.