Quotes About Kindness

Help one another, was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it.

only it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it.

You think then, that it is better to have a few duties and live a little for others, do you?

love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

By gentle words and silent acts of kindness, he had won her reverence and her trust, which now had deepened into woman's truest, purest love.

Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.

Lessons in patience were so sweetly taught her that she could not fail to learn them, charity for all, the lovely spirit that can forgive and truly forget unkindness, the loyalty to duty that makes the hardest easy, and the sincere faith that fears nothing, but trusts undoubtingly.

I know you've got something nice in your pocket, George; give her some

I wonder if you know just what it means to pious? Goin' to church, and readin' the Bible, and sayin' prayers and hymns, ain't it? Those things are a part of it; but being kind and cheerful, doing one's duty, helping others, and loving God, is the best way to show that are pious in the true sense of the word.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. They will feel that more than angry speeches or huffy actions, won't they, Marmee?

for the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

No; never repeat that foolish gossip, and forget it as soon as you can.

Non c'è pericolo che il vero ingegno e la vera bontà rimangano per molto tempo nascoste ma anche se questo accadesse la coscienza di possedere queste qualità e di impiegarle pel bene del prossimo, dovrebbe dare sufficiente soddisfazione, e, te lo ripeto, la più bella dote di una fanciulla è la modestia.

That was a very happy breakfast, thoughthey didn't get any of it. And when they went away, leaving comfortbehind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier peoplethan the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts andcontented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts our fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. When

That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it.

and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

She loved to do the little things that others did not see, or were too busy to stop for: and while doing them, without a thought of thanks, she made sunshine for herself as well as others. That is how I was brought up and how I brought up my children. <3

The only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of age, rank, age, or color.

There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind

That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it, said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes," said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.

two good angels had entered in: love and gratitude