Quotes About Kindness

I've found in life that the nicest people somehow seem to end up with the most unkind partners. I've never understood that myself.

Curious now, she glanced to its contents and this time did squeal with delight when she saw all the cages holding the furry friends she'd rescued, mended and adopted over the years. At least, the ones that hadn't been released back to the wild: Osborn the three-legged goat, Lowrans the blind wildcat, Grisell the baby cow who couldn't walk when she first saw her and now could but was still quite wobbly on her feet, and of course Brodie the bunny, and her earless little fox.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

On the contrary, real love often occurs in a context in which the feeling of love is lacking, when we act lovingly despite the fact that we don't feel loving.

I thank them for the same service.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

There is no prayer greater than service.

Love costs less than hate. (Told to Ma by her babysitter, Tirza the Winebath Girl.)

we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

Eu gosto de olhos que sorriem, de gestos que se desculpam, de toques que sabem conversar e de silêncios que se declaram.

A amizade é o melhor pretexto, até hoje inventado, para que um indivíduo pretenda tomar parte na felicidade de outro.

You cannot deny me the fact," he said; "that the donor's pleasure is always greater than that of the beneficiary.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.

If God's peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not by our own will or virtue, but by the Holy Spirit working through us. We cannot give what we do not have, but if the spirit blows through the dark clouds, and enters our hearts, we can be used as vehicles of peace, and our own peace will be thereby deepened. The more peace we give away, the more we have.

Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.

Idiot," Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. "Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Oh, Meg, you are a moron, Calvin said. Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

Well, I think you're handsome