Quotes About Kindness

Your goodness to me has been overwhelming. How tender you are, though I am often as tough as gristle. How patiently you have loved me since you made up your mind to love me always.

We don't have to do great things to make a difference. We can make a great difference by doing small things graciously.

Miss Louella says, 'Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, 'cause they can sho use it.

In truth, Mitford is everywhere. You can even find it in the heart of darkness. But we must do our part. We must give a hand; we must learn to console and uplift and encourage and be courageous. Bottom line, we simply cannot wait for others to reach out. We must reach in.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He leaned against the mantel and stretched, breathing the prayer he learned from his grandmother: Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

Listening is among the most generous ways to give.

Lord,' he prayed, 'make me a blessing to someone today.

Fancy education isn't everything. You don't need a doctorate to be an intelligent, sensitive, kind, and caring person which you truly, truly are, Harley. Forty boxes of books cannot equal that, I totally promise you.

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

The best we can do for others is work on ourselves.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart.

You can tell a lot about someone's character from the way they treat waiters or shop assistants or bus drivers when they think no one is watching.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

if the people who called themselves Christians behaved like Christians, there wouldn't be any people sleeping in the street.

We have to make friends with ourselves and be kind to those aspects of ourselves we like least. Learning to be kind to ourselves brings the discovery that fundamentally we are quite soft. We become hard when we habitually deny our own woundedness and blame others for causing our pain. In admitting our own hurt, we become soft and vulnerable.

Kindness is the beaded belt that binds all together. Expect kindness. Whatever you give out will be returned

A tragedy tears away a hope; a kindness brings it back.