Quotes About Kindness

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself.

for though he never after went to the house, yet he never met Bridget in the village, but he would either nod or wink, or smile, or look kindly at her,—or (as circumstances directed), he would shake her by the hand,—or ask her lovingly how she did,—or would give her a ribban,—and now and then, though never but when it could be done with decorum, would give Bridget a—

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who's broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don't know where we come from … we don't know where we are.

Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love

Why are you being so mean? Friends tell friends the truth. yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

Don't forget how to be gentle, she warned. Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.

Maybe they're planning the next Project. They could mail snowballs to the weather-deprived children in Texas. They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.

Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.

Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.

We're all born to fight, but few are ever trained. Instead, they tell us Be nice.

Don't forget how to be gentle, she warned. Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

tried to reach the cake plate. My fingers fell just short. If I stretched all the way across the table, the seam under my arm would split open. Jeannine saw my dilemma, picked up the plate, and passed it in the opposite direction to her mother.

Quote from Ashes-pg. 39 Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.