Quotes About Kindness

If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.

Tab's mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had 'long, hard roads ahead' and that you should just wish them well.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

costs nothing, but works wonders for oiling the cogs of social exchange.

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

Lets go to bed, honey, so these nice people can go home....

When we look after the welfare of others, we promote and participate in God's kingdom work.

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

Then I'm going to pray that God sends a conundrum your way that you must solve and that you can only solve with His help." Miranda straightened. "That's not very chivalrous." His eyes were kind but firm. "I admire the woman I've come to know here, and while I can't promise I'll ever see her again, I refuse to let her disappear off the face of the earth. You have to keep her alive.

You know, I hope you don't judge

Offer her a hand when she slips, applause when she soars.

A reproach given with great kindness is often well received, whereas when given with sharpness it produces no results. Thus Christ tells us: "Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.

Bernard, it would have been a kindness to warn me that PC Plod was going to pay a visit.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so. Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris

In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply. There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

L'amour n'est pas une affaire personnelle. C'est un désastre, une impudicité, une détresse, une bonté. Aimer c'est effrayant, mais c'est notre seule chance. Notre dernière, je veux dire.

Compassion can be learned through example.

I always have the time, room and energy for more love"

Lift your spirits by practicing random acts of kindness