Quotes About Kindness

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Love your wife or husband and show your love by your constant kindness and caresses

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.