Quotes About Kindness

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.

a kind little thought, an unselfish little act, a cheery little word, are so sweet and comfortable, that no one can fail to feel their beauty and love the giver, no matter how small they are. Mothers do a deal of this sort of thing, unseen, unthanked, but felt and remembered long afterward, and never lost, for this is the simple magic that binds hearts together, and keeps home happy.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Someone has been tortured on my behalf. Someone has been tortured on your behalf. Someone in this world will always be suffering on your behalf. If it comes your time to suffer, just remember. Someone suffered for you. That is what taking on a cloak of human flesh is all about, the willingness to hurt for another human being.

She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we?

Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

Rockefeller was fantastically charitable from boyhood.

During his first year on the job, the young clerk donated about 6 percent of his wages to charity, some weeks much more.

He peppered his talk with references to his forgiving nature.

How fortunate we were to grow up there, in a beautiful country, with good neighbors, people of culture and refinement, kind friends.

he only hoped his son would help as many people in his lifetime as Pierpont had in his.

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions...

You know, if you ain't poor, you might think it's the folks in them big ole fine brick churches that's doin all the carin and the prayin. I wish you coulda seen all them little circles a'homeless folks with their heads bowed and their eyes closed, whisperin what was on their hearts. Seemed like they didn't have nothin to give, but they was givin what they had, taken the time to knock on God's front door and ask Him to heal this woman that loved them.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down. We'd shut down hunger. We'd shut down loneliness. We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

Uno sería infinitamente generoso con los muertos amados: pero claro, siempre es mucho más difícil ser generoso con los vivos.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

I am neither of those things. And sharing my little house with you all is, perhaps, the least I can do.