Quotes About Kindness

lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often

It is my job in life, apparently, to teach gawking, laughing girls lessons about kindness.

Just because she smiled at me

It's been my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.

Some'll rob you blind, some'll kick you when you're down, but you spread some good feeling and some warmth about, and people like that. Aye.

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.

Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.

There's an openness to his face, an innocence—a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most.

I put my freezing hands on his cheeks and instead of pushing them away, he said, "Ahh, feels good." I laughed and said, "That's because you're coldhearted." He put my hands in his coat pockets and said in a voice so soft I wondered if I heard him right, "For everyone else, maybe. But not for you.

She's kind to me, but there's this distrust, this wariness. It's a let's-wait-and-see kind of feeling- let's wait and see when you hurt my son again.

You probably make her feel very special. Because that's your talent, right? You're good at making people feel special.

Celia braided my hair before she left for Margaret's house, and she even let me borrow her raspberry lip gloss. With Celia helping me, I felt like Cinderella getting ready for her big night on the town. I think I look pretty good.

I hurry over to John and Stormy. Stormy beams at me. "Doesn't she look like an absolute doll ?" She swans off. With a straight face John says, "Lara Jean, you're an absolute doll.

Jeremiah, though—he was my friend. He was nice to me. He was the kind of boy who still hugged his mother, still wanted to hold her hand even when he was technically too old for it. He wasn't embarrassed either. Jeremiah Fisher was too busy having fun to ever be embarrassed. I bet Jeremiah was more popular than Conrad at school. I bet the girls liked him better.

You looked cute in your sweater, by the way. I'm not saying that to butter you up. I mean it.

IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF, DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS. THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS, LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR ADVANCED WARNING.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

How is that even possible?" the philosopher says. "He's one of the kindest people I've ever met." She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn't it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?

Caring is all we have, I think. Cynicism is just a soft form of denial.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.

If you have not known suffering, love me.

Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.