Quotes About Kindness

Keep the gift moving forward.

I cannot do All the good That the world Needs But the world Needs all the good That I can do. —JANA STANFIELD, "All the Good," Let the Change Begin

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mean that if you spend your time putting the love of your heart into what you do for those who are not your friends, you may often be disappointed and discouraged. But if you keep on trying you will find your happiness in loving, whether you are loved back or not.

He is love, and when love comes in, hatred and selfishness and unkindness will give way to it, just as the darkness gives way when you let in the sunshine. But try to chase it alone would be trying to chase the shadows out of a dark room. It would be a waste of time.

you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people

Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.

Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year round.

What gentle, loving, and patient creatures we ought to be, when we fully realize what grace does for us.

By practicing compassion, you destroy all those artificial barriers and you truly understand that we all bleed red.

One of the most practical ways you can do this is to simply look at people as blood relatives. Just as you would care about a little brother and a little sister, develop a way of caring for other people like they're members of your family.

We live in such an alienated and busy culture that the simple act of genuinely smiling at somebody is quite rare on a day-to-day basis.

Compassion, in an ideal sense, is your ability to put yourself in other people's shoes regardless of what they look like, regardless of what they believe, regardless of whether they believe in God or not, or which god they believe in, and regardless of whether they're male, female, or patriotic. As long as they're human beings, the ideal vision of compassion is being able to feel other people's pain.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

Let's be honest, you've probably encountered somebody with an opinion that made you scratch your head, to say the least. Here's the thing though: a great conversationalist can always find some common ground, can be respectful, lighthearted, curious and kind…without agreeing in the least with their conversation partner. It's all about prioritizing enjoyable human connection over the need to agree or be right.

it's your actual act of service and going out of your way that makes you stand apart from everybody else.

If someone has a new haircut that you like, a compliment should boost their self-esteem, make them happy about their decision, and make them notice you. We're after the intended effects – they feel better about themselves, and that translates to the conversation and their feelings about you. So maybe compliments are selfish to some degree.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more.

I think I can forgive a kind lie.

I don't do pity kisses," she says. "I don't do pity anything. Pity is patronizing. Pity is an assumption of superiority." "That sounds like your dad." "It is my dad, but he's right. He says kindness is better. Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

Are you being a good boy for your mum?" Conor's grandma pinched Conor's cheeks so hard he swore she was going to draw blood. "He's been very good, Ma," Conor's mother said, winking at him from behind his grandma, her favorite blue scarf tied around her head. "So there's no need to inflict quite so much pain.

Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.