Quotes About Kindness

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

To bear ill-feelings torwards someone else is more damaging to the bearer than the recipient. For your own sake forgive quickly and freely.

[You need] eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability.

Tests and exams do not determine who is in the right standing. Tests and exams only determine who is left standing. However even if you are knocked down you can still rise again. How far you go in life does not depend on tests and exams but on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the old, sympathetic and tolerant with others who are not as strong as yourself.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

Wednesday: Pray for Strangers You See throughout This Day One of the elders said: Just as a bee, wherever she goes, makes honey, so a monk, wherever he goes, if he goes to do the will of God, can always produce the spiritual sweetness of good works.5

Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me." (Mt 25:34–36)

What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

be a good person to know," I said. "Watch

The ghosts of the kids you've helped, they hang on you like stars.

You have no reason to fear me. I'll prove to you that I'm not a monster.

Everyone gathered around as Franklin opened his other cards. "Mine's a turtle cut-out," said Snail. "Mine's a turtle poem," said Goose. "And I made up a turtle riddle," said Fox. "These are great!" exclaimed Franklin. "I just wish I had my valentines for all of you!" "I just wish we could start eating all these goodies," replied Bear. Everybody laughed.

As soon as Franklin got to school, he opened his package and gave everyone a card. "What are you doing, Franklin?" asked Beaver. "Valentine's Day was yesterday." "Oh, these cards aren't for Valentine's Day," replied Franklin. "They're for Friendship Day. And Friendship Day can be any day you want it to be.

That night Samuel sent the guards back to Fort Sill. He would not have uniformed army soldiers anywhere near the agency buildings. He would win over these people with patience and kindness. They would understand that white men were no threat to them and would not attack them, or take their land, and thus they would leave off their raiding.

Tatia, let me take care of you." He stopped and took a breath.

Sometimes the beast needs to be loved before it can be lovable. Love her in her sin, that's what divine love means. Love her with the highest form of love on earth. Love everything. Then you will see mystery in everything.

la virtud verdadera y el amor verdadero por los seres humanos se definía asignando a cada objeto el grado preciso de amor que le era propio, que merecía.

You know that we all need one other person. One other person to remind us we are still human beings and not beasts.

Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.

The wise are wise only because they love.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.