Quotes About Kindness

Sometimes, he says, we don't know why people do what they do. But we can only do our best, the best we can do, in response, and try to be as good-humoured as possible while we do it.

But love was terribly important. She didn't mean romantic love. Generalized sort of love.

One day instead the old woman said kind words to her and gave her an awning on a stick to keep rain off (there has been much rain in purgatorium)

It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.

Anyone who gives wings to another's shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.

This is part empathy, part thievery. Empathy, in art, is art's part-exchange with us, its inclusivity, at once a kindness, a going beyond the self, and a pickpocketing of our responses, which is why giving and taking are bound up with the goods, with the gods, with respect, with deep-seated understanding about the complex cultural place where kindness, thievery, bartering, and gift-giving all meet, make their exchanges, and by exchange reveal real worth.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

The English are frosty When you're no kith or kin Of theirs, but how they alter When once they take you in! The kindest, the truest, The best friends ever known, It's hard to remember How they froze you to a bone.

Polly, who made a point of finding the good in everyone, didn't like Seela either. She practiced a set of showy good manners that were actually bad manners, such as explaining why she couldn't accept an invitation or complimenting someone's dress.

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

I want us to be better people.

can I be good and also save you?

Some people are so sweet you can't hold the thought of them and trouble in the same mind at the same time.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

Thanks, little brother," said the Dump to Blue. "You helped me and they helped you. Now I see a lot depends on a helping hand from a few good friends!

gifts of words and time and touch.

Hallo, miss Norton. Wat enig om je weer te ontmoeten.' - Klaus

Giving was better than getting