Quotes About Kindness

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them. You can't transform them, you can only console them.

You can't save people, you can only love them.

Compassion is the only key I ever found which fits everyone.

In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.

The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.

At night too, she puzzled at the mystery of her desperate need for kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

recently came across a saying by the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren. "Be kind," he wrote, "for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else's expense.

I recently came across a saying by the Scottish writer Ian Maclaren. "Be kind," he wrote, "for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind.

You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind.

So as long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Amas lo inhumano.

Ces scènes où l'un offre plus de son cÅ"ur qu'on ne lui demande, sont toujours pénibles

Take upon oneself as much humanity as possible. There is the correct formula.

Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.