Quotes About Kindness

The thing about monsters is, you want to kill them until you meet them, and when you meet them they don't seem monstrous, and killing them begins to seem unkind.

Susan said. "Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence and the compassion. If you had no impulse to violence, your compassion wouldn't be so admirable. If you had no compassion, your violence would be intolerable. You understand what I'm saying?

Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly...

My name is Hugo. No, just Hugo. That's all they ever called me at the Home. I lived at the Home ever since I can remember, and the Sisters were very kind to me. The other children, they would not play with me because of my back and my squint but the Sister's were kind. They didn't call me "Crazy Hugo'' and make fun of me because I couldn't recite. They didn't get me in the corner and hit me and make me cry.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

Mentre ci allontanavamo sull'automobile ho ricordato con infinita gratitudine le gentilezze ricevute in quelle brutte casette, e fra la comunità inglese in generale. Gentilezze del genere sono facili da dimenticare e impossibili da ricambiare: bisogna essere ricchi per offrire in Inghilterra lo stesso grado di ospitalità che equivale a due lenzuola pulite e a un bagno dopo un viaggio in Persia.

The cramped harsh world he portrays is a paradoxically eloquent assertion of the importance of what is so strikingly absent from it: small acts of kindness.

He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn't have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk … I love him, anyway. I love him because he's kind to me and he doesn't want my body, doesn't want to feel me or touch me, like all the others … and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly.

Para los demás, él no era más que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo había reconocido como persona, había visto en él una amabilidad cuya existencia él mismo desconocía.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

Kyle was my friend. You have to take care of your friends.

An older woman wearing breeches and riding boots pushed a stroller out of a driveway and into the street. I stopped to let her cross. She smiled, thanking me. I smiled, saying take your time. A tiny hand reached from the stroller and waved at the sky.

Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid's I've ever coached. Don't you ever forget that.

Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that

La ambición del corazón es pura. No compite con nadie y no hace daño a nadie. De hecho, le sirve a uno de tal manera que sirve a otros al mismo tiempo.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

For to be social is to be forgiving.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.