Quotes About Kindness

True she was old, true she was unbeautiful, true she therefore had no reason to smile, but kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

And the more he treated her as though she were really very nice, the more Lotty expanded and became really very nice, and the more he, affected in his turn, became really very nice himself; so that they went round and round, not in a vicious but in a highly virtuous circle.

Un'amicizia incapace di aiutare potrebbe benissimo fare a meno di esistere.

kind ladies smiled, reason or no. They smiled, not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.

She therefore prepared herself for friendliness.

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. The doors shut, and the lights go out, and the sharpest tongue is silent, and all of us, scolder and scolded, happy and unhappy, master and slave, judge and culprit, are children again, tired, and hushed, and helpless, and forgiven. And

Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn't a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.

September 15th. After that I opened my heart to him, and listened reverently to all he had to say, and treasured up his kind and encouraging advice, and wished he could stay here a whole year and help me through the seasons. But he went, as people one likes always do go, and he was the only guest I have had whose departure made me sorry.

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.

Socialize with people in such a manner that when you die, they should weep for you, and as long as you live, they should long for your company.

He who is deserted by friends and relatives will often find help and sympathy from strangers.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favoured, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

Overlook and forgive the weaknesses of the generous people because if they fall down, God will help them.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to God, for being able to subdue him.

Mutilate not even a rabid dog.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history'd have us be. We're only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here's to those others who helped, that's my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.