Quotes About Kindness

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Our task as humans is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

We are here for the sake of others

Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder.

Una dintre funcÈ›iile principale ale unui prienten este s? sufere(într-o form? mai blând?, simbolic?) pedepsele pe care am dori s? le aplic?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri, dar nu izbutim.

Një prej funksioneve më kryesore të një miku është (në një formë të butë e simbolike) të durojë ndëshkimet të cilat do të donim, por nuk kemi mundësi, t'ua japim armiqve tanë.

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.