Quotes About Kindness

Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut! Denn das allein unterscheidet ihn von allen Wesen, die wir kennen.

If that which harms oneself as well as one's neighbor deserves the name [of vice]. Is it not enough that we cannot make each otjer happy; should we in addition deprive each other of that pleasure which every heart may sometimes grant itself?

Não há alegria mais verdadeira e cálida nesse mundo do que ver uma grande alma que se abre inteira para nós.

Wer Gutes will, der sei erst gut; Wer Freude will, besänftige sein Blut; Wer Wein verlangt, der keltre reife Trauben; Wer Wunder hofft, der stärke seinen Glauben.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Auf diesem Basar herumzugondolieren und auf die Frosch- und Spinnenjagd mit großer Freundlichkeit auszuziehen.

Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit geführt.

Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Her peculiarities must not be punished.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

The most valuable thing in the world is a good person.

No Bedouin wished to be outdone in showing kindness to a guest in his tent - or to be shamed by the charge of not being open-handed or magnanimous. p 55

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Don't complain, criticize and condemn people. Let your friends feel loved in your presence.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.

Clarity believes in all of that. Because she's - well, you know her. Generous and kind and loves everyone - because she's that way, those ideas take on a particularly important meaning to her. She doesn't know... that it wasn't that she was good and kind because of the words, but that the words meant those things because she was good and kind.

Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

Human beings are the unequivocal world champions of niceness. We act kindly not only toward people who belong to our own social groups or can reciprocate our generosity but also toward strangers thousands of miles away who will never know we helped them. All around the world, people sacrifice their resources, well-being, and even their lives in the service of others.