Quotes About Kindness

Etty spent her last days giving hope and care, "with a kind word for everyone she met on the way." Her final words were written on a postcard and thrown off Wagon No. 12, the railroad car she rode to what she knew would be her death in Auschwitz. "We left camp singing," she wrote. The Nazis took control of her possessions, her mobility, her work, her family, her body, and finally her life, yet she believed that they did not truly take anything at all.

The kind of assignments God gives in the Bible are always God-sized. They are always beyond what people can do, because he wants to demonstrate his nature, his strength, his provision, and his kindness to his people and to a watching world. This is the only way the world will come to know him.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

Jangan menjadi pengikut Buddha. Dunia tidak butuh pengikut Buddha lebih banyak lagi. Tapi sebarkanlah kasih sayang. Dunia membutuhkan banyak kasih sayang. -Dalai Lama

Love you Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Tidak ada penggandaan yang lebih cepat dan hebat daripada penggandaan akan kebaikan hati.

Being good is the best revenge anyone can have.

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child.

If we're others-centered, we'll be blessed, but if we're clothed in selfishness, we'll be of limited value to others.

You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.

smiled and the smile even touched her normally cool eyes. She said, "Lucas. I never had a chance to thank you. You saved my life—you and Dan. You as much as Dan.

Try to be nice. And if you can't be nice, then shut the hell up and go stand in the corner with your drink and leave all the rest of us alone. Yes, yes, you're right and everyone else is wrong. That—like your immense talent—is a given. But just because you're right doesn't mean you should be a dick about it.

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

Kiva had been struck by a realization that, if not exactly an epiphany, was certainly enough to make her stop in her tracks: Either she was going to have to become less fundamentally selfish, or she was going to have to find a way to make others less so.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.