Quotes About Kindness

I try to go through life doing the least damage possible. Having fun without hurting anyone, maybe doing a little good along the way, but without taking myself too seriously.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word "cherish" comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don't shut him or her out.

Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

we both agreed that hereafter we would each make a special effort to treat the other with more courtesy and respect.

I have also made the decision to believe that you and I and every one of us have been doing the best we could at every moment of every day of our lives up to and including this moment. If we could have done better, we would have done better.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

The more opportunity I have to treat people the way I wished I myself had been treated, the better I feel.

you get nothing with a fist that you can't get in multitudes with your hand open.

Do good things', he murmured. 'Try to make a difference.

Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgment or condemnation of the person or situation from which I am detaching. It is simply a means that allows us to separate ourselves from the adverse effects that another person's alcoholism [substitute "BPD behavior"] has upon our lives.

In fact, if you are generous, or have a caretaking personality, they may treat you the worst.

When I was a kid, "selfish" was an insult in my home. It was something only "bad" people indulged in. But I learned that it was only when I started taking care of myself that I was really able to care for others.

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need. — St. John the Almoner

Love that cares, listens.

There is no love which does not become help.

The gratitude of those who receive help is first and always gratitude for love and only afterwards gratitude for help.

Estou cada vez mais convencido de que o que dá ao ministério as suas motivações, perseverança, humildade, alegria, amabilidade, paixão e graça é a vida devocional daquele que está exercendo o ministério.

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!