Quotes About Kindness

For while an event for which we are longing never happens quite in the way we have been expecting, failing the advantages on which we supposed that we might count, others present themselves for which we never hoped, and make up for our disappointment; and we have been so dreading the worst that in the end we are inclined to feel that, taking one thing with another, chance has, on the whole, been rather kind to us.

for the people who decline to give you the things you desire give you other things.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Chaque fois qu'elle voyait aux autres un avantage si petit fût-il qu'elle n'avait pas, elle se persuadait que c'était non un avantage mais un mal et les plaignait pour ne pas avoir à les envier.

Hata, ba?kalar?n?n tatl?l???na, zekâs?na kay?ts?z kalmam?zd?r.

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Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory. The first on to use it will win.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow. But as long as you don't point it out to him, don't make fun of him; be aware of what you need to work on instead.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.

But some of our choices are bigger, not massive, but bigger, and they have an impact on the people around us: shall I help that old lady with her shopping, or not? Shall I say something kind to you when I meet you? Shall I laugh at your ideas, shall I walk through the world gently, or shall I push everyone aside?

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins