Quotes About Kindness

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Nothing responds more infallibly to the secret cry of goodness than the secret cry of goodness that is near. While you are actively good in the invisible, all those who approach you will unconsciously do things that they could not do by the side of any other man.

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

Oh, and I almost forgot to say, Neighbour Berlingot's little girl actually did get well, when her brother brought her the beautiful bird in his cage. Did I hear someone ask whether the bird had changed colours, and really was blue ? Well, if Tyltyl and Mytyl's joy and happiness gave him a magnificent blue plumage, isn't that enough? Without knowing it, these gentle children had discovered Light's great secret, which is that we draw nearer to happiness by trying to give it to others!

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

la primera ley exigible de la poesía: enseñar la virtud, la indulgencia y el amor al prójimo, además de servir, en caso de ataque, de arma arrojadiza.

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men;

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

To do good to others because we want them to do good to us is essentially selfish. In time we must learn to do good regardless of how we are treated by others; as Christ said, we must love even our enemies.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.