Quotes About Kindness

You see, that's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you—without you asking.

If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What

When you see an old lady who's on the wrong side of a good mood, now you know why. She has a past that you can't understand because you didn't live it. As she ages, her feet hurt, her back aches, her knees click, she cooks, she cleans, she worries, she waits, and then she gets sick and dies. Be kind, Anina. Someday you'll be the old lady.

There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.

I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

No act of kindness is ever wasted.

You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.

Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

The covetous are poor givers.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

The North Wind and the Sun

One winter a Farmer found a Viper frozen and numb with cold, and out of pity picked it up and placed it in his bosom. The Viper was no sooner revived by the warmth than it turned upon its benefactor and inflicted a fatal bite upon him; and as the poor man lay dying, he cried, "I have only got what I deserved, for taking compassion on so villainous a creature." Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a difference in the world. This is how you might be able to reform a possible rapist without ever going to psychology school.

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.

How kind we would be if we managed to import even a little of this instinct into adult relationships – if here, too, we could look past the grumpiness and viciousness and recognize the fear, confusion and exhaustion which almost invariably underlie them. This is what it would mean to gaze upon the human race with love. Esther's

Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.

Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.

There may be no better way to clear the diary of engagements than to wonder who among our acquaintances would make the trip to the hospital bed.