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Quotes About Kindness

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
~ Mencius
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
~ Sharon Gannon
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
~ Tacitus
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Be kinder. Kindness is underrated!
~ Louise Roe
For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
~ Sophocles
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
~ Ian Mcewan
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
~ George Eliot
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
~ Richard Paul Evans
It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.
~ Nicholas Young
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
~ Sharon Salzberg
There is nothing more powerful than kindness.
~ Mary Carillo
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
~ Publilius Syrus
A kindness is never wasted
~ Aesop
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
~ George H. W. Bush
The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
~ Frederick Lenz