Quotes About Kindness

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

he's telling the kids to help others when they need help, and to accept help when they need it themselves.

We thought the boy might want this.

I'm not going to waste their kindness.

She was all of herself with him and even felt there was room for her to become more. When he rested his eyes on her, it was without judgment or expectation, and in that space, Sylvie felt her potential: for bravery, brilliance, kindness, joy. All of these sails rested on the deck of her ship; they were hers, but she hadn't seen them before.

He was his acts of kindness, and his love for his daughters,

This act of generosity—Cecelia and Emeline had nothing to gain from him, personally—still struck him as extraordinary.

We might have been friends, if you had had a slightly lower set of standards, if your judgements of people had been less unkind, less critical; if that outer layer of pride had not been so prickly, so impenetrable.

That any human being should willingly afflict a fellow being who had never injured, or even offended him; that, unswayed by passion, he should deliberately become the means of torturing him, appeared to Vivaldi nearly incredible!

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

Remember, too, that one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all," but conscience is what gives us our humanity, the factor that separates us from animals. It allows us to love, to feel another's pain, and to grow. Whatever the drawbacks are to being blessed with a conscience, the rewards are essential to living in a world with other human beings.

We are freed to free others. We are affirmed to affirm others. We are loved to love others.

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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Because of the violence that has been at work in my family for generations, I can't name one relative who believes that he or she is loveable, worthy of kindness, deserving of care, attention, gentleness. This is what violence does; it squeezes us down into creatures we are not meant to be, so self-loathing and fearful that it hurts too much to hope, constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, for things to begin badly, or end badly. Moments of joy and pleasure regarded with suspicion.

He looked younger, kinder, a brighter image of the man she knew. A man life hadn't mistreated or betrayed. Whatever the pain of this union, she loved that she gave him this momentary peace. This encounter lurched from the physical onto a different plane. A plane revealing a new emotional landscape. She felt lightheaded, lost.

I don't know what I've done to deserve such kindness." The countess's eyes sparkled, as if she concealed a delightful secret. "Don't you know, my dear? Really?" Campion stared at her, puzzled. "I didn't save your dog." "Perhaps not." The countess smiled. "But I hope that you might save my son." Oh,

From the first, Giles had enjoyed staying with the Talbots. They welcomed him with a generosity that he'd always known was exceptional. But envy tinged his gratitude. Because however kind this noisy, loving, exuberant clan was, however willingly they included him in their festivities, he remained an outsider. An outsider yearning after the lovely daughter of the house like grim Hades yearned after bright Persephone. Darkness hungering for irresistible light.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones; speak them rather now instead.

Keep your hands to yourself, keep out of other people's personal space, and keep your temper under control, no matter what happens.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.