Quotes About Kindness

No dejemos que el odio amargue nuestras vidas.

Todo o mal do mundo vem de nos importarmos uns com os outros,    Quer para fazer bem, quer para fazer mal.

Güte ist das Feingefühl roher Seelen.

What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ...

Grande é a poesia, a bondade e as danças… Mas o melhor do mundo são as crianças, Flores, música, o luar, e o sol, que peca Só quando, em vez de criar, seca.

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other, therefore, with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.

Kindness is a temperamental caprice and we do not have the right to make others the victims of our caprice however humane or tender-hearted.

Grande é a poesia, a bondade e as danças...  Mas o melhor do mundo são as crianças,  Flores, música, o luar, e o sol que peca  Só quando, em vez de criar, seca. 

en qué consiste tratar a las personas como a personas, es decir, humanamente? Respuesta: consiste en que intentes ponerte en su lugar.

Hay que ser imbécil, moralmente imbécil, para suponer que es mejor vivir rodeado de pánico y crueldad que entre amor y agradecimiento!

Quien vive bien debe ser capaz de una justicia simpática, o de una compasión justa

Se trata de sentir simpatía por el otro (o si prefieres compasión, pues ambas voces tienen etimologías semejantes, la una derivando del griego y la otra del latín)

No preguntes qué derecho tiene el otro a tu hospitalidad; sólo recuerda que tú también la necesitaste y la obtuviste; si no la obtuviste, recuerda que querías obtenerla y trata al otro como tú deseabas ser tratado, no como efectivamente te trataron.

Io sarò anche Satana, Belzebù, quello che vi pare, ma so cos'è il dolore perchè io stesso l'ho provato e lo provo tuttora per la mia solitudine, per l'odio che hai suscitato contro di me. Insomma, ti confesso che quel poveretto mi fa compassione. E che vorrei dargli una mano.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have. Past

I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

Everything I do is like tough love; everything I put out there in the universe is me trying to feed you. I really care.