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Quotes About Kindness

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
~ Anne Rice
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
~ Herman Melville
Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.
~ Theocritus
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
~ Charles Fenno Hoffman
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
~ Jack Kerouac
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.
~ James Leonard Gordon
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
~ Seneca the Younger
when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
~ Edward Albee
I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.
~ Dar Williams
I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
~ Jodi Picoult
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
~ Sara Paretsky
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.
~ Claudius Aelianus
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
~ Dave Matthews
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
~ Jean Maalouf
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
~ John James Audubon
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky