Quotes About Kindness

He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

Love isn't something you have, it's something you do.

He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.

What produces a dork? Usually a kind and loving household. Plus the fact he's usually a decent, bright guy with a distinct lack of aggression.

Blue believes the harmony to be motivated by self-interest. There is a resurgence of faith these days, a growing belief in organized religion, grace, damnation, heaven and hell. People treat each other kindly now, thinks Blue, because they hope to escape God's wrath. Blue does not believe in damnation and has trouble empathizing with those who do. In her fifty-two years, she has found no hard evidence, no scientific proof to convince her of God's existence. She considers herself an atheist.

take your love and show them

In my imagination I smiled back at her, then found I was smiling down at her because she was in a wheelchair.

This boy is a man. Twice the man you are. He is kind where you're cruel, he is strong where you're weak, and he knows full well how to make a girl want to be got, and to get her. And when he does, he can last long, longer, I wager, than you! He is Peretur Paladn Hir, and he is destined for greatness!

If Gwladus was here, maybe the lady would smile sometimes. Maybe she wouldn't be so pitiless.

You musn't let her treat you as badly as she treats herself.

Always know what they like, her mother said. They will love you for it.

Whoever you are, Peretur, I would have you.

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

Il y a pas une grande sagesse a dire un mot de reproche ; mais il y a une plus grande sagesse a dire un mot qui, sans se moquer du malheur de l'homme, le ranime, lui rende du courage, comme les éperons rendent du courage à un cheval que l'abreuvoir a rafraîchi.

Cultivate love by vanishing hatred.

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.

Learn to be gracious whether you win or lose.

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.

Take any man you like of the persons whom you thus term rascals. That man none the less remains a human being. That being so, how can one refuse to defend him when all the time one knows that half his errors have been committed through ignorance and stupidity? Each of us commits faults with every step that we take; each of us entails unhappiness upon others with every breath that we draw—and that although we may have no evil intention whatever in our minds.