Quotes About Kindness

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.

Can I help you? said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years...hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

Valancy held Cissy close. She was suddenly happy. Here was someone who needed her – someone she could help. She was no longer a superfluity. Old things had passed away; everything had become new.

It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures.

God doesn't make bargains. He gives… gives without asking anything from us in return except love.

It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one

Oh, they meant to be – I know they meant to be just as good and kind as possible. And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite – always.

She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded...Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face of God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always.

But, Felix, you may be sure that God is infinitely more beautiful and loving and tender and kind than anything we can imagine of Him. Never believe anything else, my boy.

I CAN help people—I've learned that money isn't the only power for helping people. Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.