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Quotes About Kindness

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
~ John Ruskin
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
~ Sri Chinmoy
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
~ Oscar Wilde
We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.
~ Alexander Pope
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
~ Samuel Smiles
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
~ George Santayana
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
~ Edwin Arnold
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
~ William Hazlitt
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
~ Charles Darwin
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
~ Joseph Addison
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
~ Confucius
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
~ Dwight L. Moody
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Sympathy is a sweet thing.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.
~ William Shakespeare
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
~ Seneca the Younger
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning