Quotes About Kindness

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

Kindness is many things," he said. "It is gentle. Tender. Tolerant. It is born of patience and faith. And sometimes, yes, it's dangerous. Helping a wounded animal that's likely to lash out, standing up for someone who's being taunted by bullies... these things are all dangerous. But to try to understand another creature, to put ourselves in their place, to help them - even when it costs us - that shows strength, Sophie, not weakness.

By changing a life, just one life, you -can- change the world. It is the only way anyone ever has. [Anna of Cleves]

Jimmy let's out a whistle. "What?" "Your hand." I look at it. My ripped nail is still bleeding. I wipe the red off on my pants. "You should get it taken care of. It looks awful" he says. "I guess it does." "You must be in pain, kid. Does it hurt?" I nod. "Yeah, Jimmy. All the time.

And that lesson was perfectly clear: There is nothing more dangerous than kindness.

But then again, it's easy to love those who've done right by us, don't you think? A bit harder to love those who've done us wrong.

There is magic in this sad, hard world. A magic stronger than fate, stronger than chance. And it is seen in the unlikeliest of places... It is the magic of a frail and falliable creature, one capable of both unspeakable cruelty and immense kindness. It lives inside every human being ready to redeem us. To transform us. To save us. If we can only find the courage to listen to it. It is the magic of the human heart.

Because he deserves a second chance," Love said. "Everyone does. My enchantress transformed the outer man to transform the inner. His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.

His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.

There is nothing more dangerous than kindness.

For last night, the Beast had given her an unexpected present—a gift more valuable to her than his castle and all his lands, one more precious than jewels or gold. Last night, the Beast had given her his books.

Oh, Astrid... You can't sing. - Becca

Consider yourself hugged. Virtual hug." I felt the virtual hug, warm and snug.

On a sigh he brought up his hand and used one long finger to brush a dark curl away from my face. With the saddest look in his eyes, he said, "A girl needs to be held right now, and comforted, and told that everything is going to be okay. I'm sorry I can't do that for you. I don't have any of that left." "I have a little," I said, "and I'll lend it to you.

But when I was a little girl, my mom always told me to be nice to everybody, no matter what they looked like or how they treated me, because I never knew who might be an angel God had sent to Earth in disguise.

His voice was soft and jis smile was kind

And Moose heard her happiness then—Oh, the joy that came of dispensing happiness to others, of entering happiness's interlocking circuitry!

A good deed needs no excuse.

A good deed needs no excuse. So his pop used to reassure Dexter when he would resist, embarrassed, carrying a covered dish of leftover meatballs to the bums and hoboes who haunted the carny houses near his restaurant. Dexter muttered the phrase to himself as he lifted the heavy folded chair into his trunk. A good deed needs no excuse.

Don't you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved?

Maybe we should just love one another, even if we don't completely understand the things that people bear in their dark, strange hearts, even if the stars that other men and women are following seem invisible to us. If we make ourselves open to the humanity of others first, maybe understanding will follow. An incomprehensible theory of the universal isn't necessary if your only ambition is to embrace another soul. What you need, maybe all you need, in fact, is the willingness to love.

Don't you know that this is the only reason we are here, to love one another, and to be loved? Why is it that what is so obvious to dogs is such a mystery to men and women?

Generosity of the heart is the most valuable asset you can have.