Quotes About Kindness

I promise I am not going to crush your spirit Kate. Why would I, when that's what I love most about you?

Passion lasts but a moment, compassion a lifetime.

It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Oh, that he should care so little about people whom God loved so much.

Every blessing comes down from the Father, not in payment for good done, but as a gift.

Bellario. Sir, you did take me up When I was nothing; and only yet am something By being yours. You trusted me unknown; And that which you were apt to conster A simple innocence in me, perhaps Might have been craft, the cunning of a boy Hardened in lies and theft: yet ventured you To part my miseries and me; for which, I never can expect to serve a lady That bears more honour in her breast than you.

Serve God daily, love one another, preserve your victuals, beware of fire, and keepe good companie.

We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that can happen on a grand scale. But most of the time it happens in simple acts of kindness of one person to another. Those are the events that really matter.

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Franklin's prayer: O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me.

Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

I want to put into your heads that the world is not all evil. Yes, we do have nightmares, but we also have dreams. We do have villainy, but we also have great compassion among ourselves. That's all I'm here for, really, to try to tell you that there's good in the world. And that it's wonderful.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

Mercy is a chimera.

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The arifa knew the ways to slay ademon and was always chosen 'because he has the wisdom to be ruthless without being cruel', to know when kindness is in fact the way to greater cruelty.

mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Ocorreu-lhe que a misericórdia era a capacidade de parar, mesmo que apenas por um instante. Não havia misericórdia onde não era possível parar.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.