Quotes About Kindness

If an angel out of heaven Gives you something else to drink, Thank him for his kind intentions; Go and pour them down the sink.

Why we were born, if not to help each other? So, nothing to listen and nothing to speak is a very cold help.

Can't you let a man die as comfortably as he can without calling him names?

Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.

When you love, you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Everything you do to someone you love out of pleasure is the most honorable.

We are most human when love is our motive.

Where there is no love, there is no value for life.

True humility can be experienced only when we have come to know our power and use it for the good of others and not for ourselves.

This is what makes Jesus different than the rest of us. After Jesus knew he had all things under his power, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with a towel that was wrapped around him.

Wisdom understands that it is less important to win a fight or a point than it is to win the person. Wisdom knows that you should never fight against people; you should fight for them.

One day Mrs. Goodkind said, 'Pickles, you are not a bad cat. You are not a good cat. You are good and bad. And bad and good. You are a mixed-up cat. What you need is a good home. Then you will be good.'

What I can tell you," she says, "is that his kindness makes me feel safe, but when I think about who I want to sleep with, safe is not what I look for.

And when we haven't been touched in years, we are more vulnerable to the kindness of strangers.

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

I want to want to try to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not to see life as a competition.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world makes it an even more inhospitable place.

He seemed to give the changes his same, kind recognition--to accept them because they had to be only of the time being, even to love them, even to laugh sometimes at their absurdity

Megérteni annyi, mint megbocsátani.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

But somehow, after you talked to her for a while, after you got to know her, she started to look really awesome. I thought so anyway. After you found out how warm she was, how kind, how interested she was in what other people had to say. It changed the way she looked . . . I don't really know how to describe it.

I guess you don't always have to be a nice guy to be a good man.

For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!