Quotes About Kindness

It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks?

Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest

Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.

Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest. I would give my life again to make it so

Perhaps she thought I hated her. She did not know that I almost asked him, a hundred times, to be a little kinder to her. You do not have to humiliate her so thoroughly, I thought. But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.

You are a golden goddess, beautiful and kind. If I had such a sister, I would never let her go.

My dear, they must always offer something, even if it is small, even if only wine poured at your spring, else they will forget to be grateful, after.

To horses, dogs and cats, to birds in cages, to pigs in sties, to sheep in folds, to cattle in stalls—to them all he sang his song and danced his dance! When he was eating out-of-doors he would pay court to the nearest toad or frog or blind-worm. When he was sucking an orange before going to bed, he would make overtures to a spider.

The biggest and most important reason in the world is to be together with someone in a way that makes life a little less bleak and solitary and lonesome. To exchange the I for We. In the biggest sense of the word, it's cold outside. And kindness and affection and gentleness build a nice warm fire inside.

In my experience, John D. MacDonald, the man, was as kind and thoughtful as his fiction would lead you to believe that he must be. That a writer's work accurately reflects his soul is a rarer thing than you might imagine, but in his case, the reflection is clear and true. For that reason, it has been a special honor, in fact a grace, to be asked to write this introduction.

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" (Luke 6:27).

We simply start saying, "I love you" as we turn our attention toward him for a moment or two. As I do so I find it helpful to recall some reason I love God: his goodness, the beauty of the world (ninety thousand caribou stacked up for a river crossing), a kindness I recently received. "God is the creator of everything I love." Just repeat that to yourself, "God is the creator of everything I love.

Make no room for offense.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan.

No tienes que poseer un título universitario para servir. No tienes que hacer que tu sujeto y tu verbo coincidan para servir. No tienes que saber sobre Platón y Aristóteles para servir. No tienes que conocer la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein para servir. Solo necesitas un corazón lleno de gracia. Un alma que nazca del amor. Y puedes ser ese servidor.

money is made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?

Opening the heart results in greater forgiveness and increased motivation to give and receive love and support.

If she washes your socks, turn your socks right side out so she doesn't have to.

Use this book to let yourself or your partner ease up on each other, and you will be using it to create more love in your life. Above all else, love is giving, compassionate, and forgiving. If these insights help you to keep your heart open, then they have served their purpose.

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

Meanness does not inspire loyalty.

shook hands. She thanked him for his pro bono