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Quotes About Kindness

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
~ James Cromwell
From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.
~ Jamie Oliver
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
~ Padma Lakshmi
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
~ Ted Allen
Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
~ James Cromwell
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.
~ Sivaji Ganesan
When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
~ Rachael Ray
I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.
~ Louis C.K.
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
~ Mother Teresa
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.
~ Carolyn Hax
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.
~ Claire Cameron
Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~ Mark Twain
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
~ Coretta Scott King
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
~ Horace Mann
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
~ Alain de Botton
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
~ Thomas Merton
It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.
~ Nelson Mandela
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.
~ Bree Despain