Quotes About Kindness

En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones.

all have angelic moments that we give to each other. They

Si no utilizáis, además de la cabeza, vuestro corazón y vuestra alma, no ayudaréis a nadie.

La medicina tiene sus límites, realidad qe no se enseña en la facultad. Otra realidad que no se enseña es qe un corazón compaisvo puede sanar casi todo. Unos cuantos meses en el campo me convencieron de que ser buen médico no tiene nada que ver con anatomía, cirugía ni con recetar los medicamentos correctos. El mejor servicio que un médico puede prestar a un enfermo es ser una persona amable, atenta, cariñosa y sensible.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

People who don't feel cared for are not always comfortable being cared for.

We forget how ready people are to help. You can talk all you want about the evil spirit of man. But I don't think it's true. I think most of us are just dying to be good. And one way we can do that is to forgive the bad in others as well as in ourselves. I don't say don't hold people accountable. Help them be accountable. But to say those words to yourself or another? 'I forgive you'? Most powerful words in the world.

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?

Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology rushed us ever forward, and simple civility - a certain kindness and care - got sacrificed.

He hesitates, then turns and starts up her walk. Gives her a friendly smile, to boot. He wishes she wouldn't wear a wig, or at least not one that sits so crookedly on her head. It's a distraction. Sometimes he has to restrain himself from reaching over and giving it a little tug, then smacking her knee in a friendly way and saying, "There you go!" But why risk humiliating her?

You know what? That woman's pain being greater than yours doesn't make your pain any less. She deserves the best we can offer, and so do you. Now roll over and hike up your johnnie.

Japanese tea ceremony; a way of honoring oneself by putting another's needs first, the joy that could be found in intimate service...A conversation we'd had one night on the way home from a movie. I remember that night he'd put toothpaste on my brush before his own, then bowed, I smiled, but I'd understood too that such small gifts were one seed that blossomed in two hearts.

Always be kind and comport yourself well, my child, for that will be your only happiness in life." "You mean that I will otherwise be unhappy?" "Yes," she said, "everyone has times of sorrow, but you will have more than most. And also you will have much to forgive." "But why?" "Because it will happen that you will have to forgive the only source of happiness you will know.

her heart has opened.

Love purifies everything

A friend of hers once described such acts of kindness as hold knots on life's climbing rope.

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart? Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.

It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.