Quotes About Kindness

This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Requite injury with kindness.