Quotes About Kindness

For this was love, wasn't it? To have someone clean up after you, to think about you when you were sick, to not walk away when there was nothing to be gained for the labor required.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

You must be a diligent person with a humble heart. Have compassion for everyone. Even your enemies.

Your grandmother Sunja and great-aunt Kyunghee visit me on Saturdays. Did you know that? They pray for me, too. I don't understand the Jesus stuff, but it's something holy to have people touch you when you're sick. The nurses here are afraid to touch me. Your grandmother Sunja holds my hands, and your great-aunt Kyunghee puts cool towels on my head when I get too hot. They're kind to me, though I'm a bad person—

You have the kindest father in the land," her mother would often remark, and Sunja had been proud of his love for them, the way a child from a rich family might have been proud of her father's numerous bags of rice and piles of gold rings.

If you love anyone, you cannot help but share his suffering.

Expect nothing and never disappoint; never harm and be kind. Enjoy the moment.

It's something holy to have people touch you when you're sick.

Now that he was gone, Sunja held on to her father's warmth and kind words like polished gems.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault.

Yangjin smiled at him. Every week, he complained that no one paid on time, but most people went with less food to pay him, since it was too cold this winter not to have coal. The coal man was also a portly gentleman who took a cup of tea and accepted a snack at every house on his route; he would never starve even in such lean years.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

Your girlfriend's sibling or parents might be totally nuts, but always defend them. Always. All a girl wants to do is to get along with her family and if you are on the side of making it easy, you will be loved eternally. It might be easier to condemn them - especially if she's doing that already - but, remarkably, even if they are murderers, she will find the good in them, especially if you start trashing them.

I really ought to send him some money, but, honestly, he doesn't need it. He has that sweet Despicable Me money.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

Again, I was forced to say thank you. How I continually found myself in situations where I felt I had to say thank you to mean guys, I'm not sure.

I don't actually understand the meaning of generosity. It means giving to people and expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean giving to someone with the expectation, or even hope, that they will regale you with praise for being such a generous person. I realized that I'm fine with giving, but I'm bad at generosity.

Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned.

What good is self-cultivation and wisdom if you just keep it for yourself? Knowledge is meant to be used, and if you can use it on behalf of others, you should.

Above all, be compassionate. This is a stand against all evil and it opens your spirit.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

Sing to the lonely, comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts