Quotes About Kindness

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Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

Ik heb een speciale klus voor je, Gé.' … 'Is dit zo'n klus waarbij je een grote beloning krijgt als je het goed doet?' 'Nee,' antwoordde Carla. 'Dit is zo'n klus waarbij je een pijnlijke beloning krijgt als je het verkeerd doet.' Turf zuchtte. Was er dan nooit meer eens iemand aardig?

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence.

Philosophy's purpose is to illuminate the ways our soul has been infected by unsound beliefs, untrained tumultuous desires, and dubious life choices and preferences that are unworthy of us. Self-scrutiny applied with kindness is the main antidote.

Así como el Sol no espera que las oraciones y conjuros se levanten, sino que resplandece y es bien recibido por todos: así que tú tampoco esperes aplaudir y gritar y alabar para cumplir con tu deber; no, haz el bien por tu propia voluntad, y serás amado como el Sol.

Well, then, biting, kicking, wanton imprisonment and beheading – is that what our nature entails? No; rather, acts of kindness, cooperation and good will. And so, whether you like it or not, a person fares poorly whenever he acts like an insensitive brute.

The value of one's life is determined by how much love one gives, not by how much love one has received.

the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

Refuse to participate in gossip—tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.

He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me—in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never cease. He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love—this is an old rule.

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Kindness never won a war. The kind filled many graves.

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor -- as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

Il ne s'agissait ni d'un coup de foudre amoureux, ni d'un coup de foudre amical, mais d'un coup de foudre ... comment dire ... humain.

Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.

Si c'est un homme, c'est mon prochain, pas mon lointain.

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.