Quotes About Kindness

if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

The weirdest stuff in the world is certainly to don't love and don't know how to love, that's why others can not be a reason to don't love

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Coração que ama engrandece.

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.

We treat others badly not because we don't understand how people should be treated but because we don't really consider them people.

I'd been deeply affected by my contact with the miners, not only because of their kindness, but because they'd taken this potentially hellish place and made it, if not heaven, at least human; through their simple rituals of eating, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, praying, playing, and talking, they'd created civilization in one of the most impossible places to imagine it. And what seemed like a miracle to me was, to them, just another day at work!

Don't feel guilty. Do something to make it better. Help us heal by standing—or sitting—alongside us.

He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn't believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her.

In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can't pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.

Let's let go of the illusion that hesed can be reduced to one English "literal" word and instead see it as a key that can open a door into an entire world—the world of God's own heart, the world of loving

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

St. John of the Cross: "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.

Go on. Go on", urged Billy in a soft voice. His eyes were large. He drew up his knees under the covers.

To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.

It was the kind of smile that seemed to exclude no one, without becoming abstract philanthropy.

Not so, Tarek. The highest love is given without thought of cost or reward—anything less is not love.

One might think one is loving God; the real test is whether it leads to a love of people

If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

For what purpose have you prayed?" "For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.