Quotes About Kindness

Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.

I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church.

As long as you're willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends.

Shhh. Stop trying to carry the whole world on your shoulders. Let someone hold you. Let me.

Nieddu's gesture came of the same mysterious, irresistible urge to make things better for other people. For a relative, for a stranger: the urge to make things better was in our marrow.

say something like that? The poor boy

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.

It's more important to understand people than to forgive them.

It's the Lord who is kind, Dottore. We merely do His service.

Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word `kindness' was liking rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Let's both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let's be happy together and have fun always.

I see that as usual I've gone on too long and that I'm running out of room, but I do hope that you are happy and well, and it's all a little less lonely out there than you may have feared. If there's anything I can do for you back here, or if I can help you in any way, please know that I will.

As much as I enjoyed her company I was slightly uneasy in her presence; not because of any lack of charm of kindness on her part, but because of a too-strong wish to impress her on mine

Boris shrugged. "Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.

These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth people; people whom i should count myself fortunate to know

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

Your species. You have a terrific capacity for effing things up. For hurting one another. For making the world a worse place. But then you invent something like ice cream. That makes up for a lot. Makes you worth rooting for.

I needed help. And good folks responded

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.