Quotes About Kindness

There is goodness in many hearts. In most hearts. In some hearts. I love peanuts.

I made you something

Well now, look at that," she said. "That dog is smiling at me." "It's a talent of his," I told her. "It is a fine talent," Miss Franny said. "A very fine talent." And she smiled back at Winn-Dixie. "We could be friends," I said to Miss Franny. "I mean you and me and Winn-Dixie, we could all be friends.

What matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks up.

Kate DiCamillo

And perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.

Kate DiCamillo

and finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.

Kate DiCamillo

what Raymie thought as they rose to the surface together was that it was the easiest thing in the world to save somebody. For the first time, she understood Florence Nightingale and her lantern and the bright and shining path... For just a minute, she understood everything in the whole world.

Save the sandwiches," Gloria Dump

Kate DiCamillo

He had such a kind voice, that of a man who sees his own faults and forgives himself for them--not arrogantly or leniently but with wisdom--knowing he, as are all humans, is hopelessly flawed.

He praised the mare and tugged at her ear. He flattered the cob as well, liking him suddenly; sorry for him because his plain looks concealed such a generous heart.

they were all so clearly portraits of the kind of girl who should be mourned, who should be missed given her do-goodness, her smile, her kindness toward others, and not portraits of any actual girl I knew.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

It was becoming apparent that Chick himself had only one ambition and that was to help everybody so much that they would love him.

One of the young men she had just met had obviously paid for her ride. Her face was red when he came down the aisle. "I guess," he said, grinning, "if I pay your fare I can sit by you.

Sometimes...you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

They both had that in common, the desire to be needed, to know that they made someone's life a little better.

Hatred is not a crime.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.