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Quotes About Kindness

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
~ Thomas Hood
A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
~ Torquato Tasso
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
~ George Eliot
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
~ Homer
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
~ James Russell Lowell
Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.
~ John W. Roper
When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me
~ Margaret Jones
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.
~ Rebecca West
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
~ Robert Anderson
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.
~ Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you, " would be understood: It would be practiced.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
empathy is more powerful than sympathy
~ Angie Thomas
...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.
~ M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.
~ Romans
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
~ Walt Whitman
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
~ Kenny Ausubel
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
~ Heather Brewer
Let your Teacher be Love itself.
~ Rumi