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Quotes About Kindness

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
~ Christopher Morley
Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
~ Joe J. Christensen
Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
~ Donna Tartt
The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
~ Dalai Lama
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
~ Edna O'Brien
We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.
~ Amani
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
~ Dorothy Osborne
The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.
~ Charles Bukowski
To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.
~ Cassandra Clare
Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.
~ Perry Brass
They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?
~ Jerry Spinelli
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
~ Max Lucado
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
~ Pierre Corneille
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
~ Jeph Jacques
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
~ Samuel Johnson
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
~ Perry Brass
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
~ Anuj
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
~ Katherine Center
Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.
~ Brandon Sanderson