Quotes About Kindness

I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

According to Grandad, being a vegetarian wasn't about just health or cruelty of money or flavor: it was about manners. He said that stealing milk and eggs and honey was enough of a liberty without hacking off someone's leg and then drowning it in gravy. He had a point.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.

We don't pass by on the other side.

In the end, yes, it is a famous bookstore and, yes, it is of no small literary importance. But more than anything, Shakespeare and Company is a refuge, like the church across the river. A place where the owner allows everyone to take what they need and give what they can.

Every morning when you wake up, I want you to make two promises to yourself. One, you'll do your best to stay healthy and keep living. Two, you'll be as good as you can to others and yourself.' And that's it.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too." "Huh. Which kind of person are you?" "Both. We all are, at different times.

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

Christ has loved us in our great need. He asks us to lift up our eyes and show a little of this love to those around us.

The man gave Westin two

She said he acted like any small chore or favor was the biggest burden in the world.

Godly fear," wrote John Bunyan, flows from a sense of the love and kindness of God to the soul. Where there is no sense of hope of the kindness and mercy of God by Jesus Christ, there can be none of this fear, but rather wrath and despair, which produces a fear that is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ devilish; Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but godly fear flows from a sense of hope of mercy from God by Jesus Christ.2

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

They did this because God had made them favorably disposed toward the Israelites. How did

God's love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Evie had swallowed that like it belonged to her and went right back to whatever she was working on. Then, later that day, I was walking behind her as she told a fifth grader in outdated bell-bottoms that he wore them with "a flair and a flourish" all his own. I liked that a whole lot about Evie, how she passed on her treasures.

You live your life, you try to live compassionately, and that's the end of it. You do a little more than you should have to in order to be a good person, but you don't go making big changes in the world, trying to fix things. It presumes too much to do so. There's only this: if everyone acts quietly, compassionately, things will go a little better than they would have otherwise. But people will still suffer.