Quotes About Kindness

Nice doggie.

Það er alltaf einhver sem þarf á hjálp að halda. Það er alltaf einhver úti í kuldanum, einhver að leita að hendi í snjónum.

Some people move through the world and make their whole existence a gift to others. As soon as I feel well enough, I aim to be one of those people.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

At the first gate, the gatekeeper asks, "Is this true?" At the second gate, he asks, "Is it kind?" And at the third gate, "Is it necessary?" If we applied this proverb strictly, most of us would have very little to say. I am not recommending silence, however, but control over our speech.

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.

But if you do not learn how to love, everywhere you go you are going to suffer.

when you put the other person's welfare foremost every day, no matter how strong the opposing tide inside, you discover after a while that you can love a little more today than you did yesterday.

Most of us are vigilant when making big decisions, but less so when dealing with little ones. We forget the cumulative effect of all those missed "little" opportunities. It is precisely on those thousand little occasions, and over a period of time, that the mind is taught to be calm and kind - not instantaneously or by great leaps. In the ordinary choices of every day we begin to change the direction of our lives.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

It was nice to have him back. It made me realize that he was probably the only genuinely nice person in the whole group. Amongst us all he stands out like a good deed in a bad world, as they say.

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

Erityisherkät voivat tiivistää kaikki etikettisäännöt kolmen sanan sääntöön: vähennä toisen ylivirittyneisyyttä. (Tai kahteen sanaan: ole ystävällinen.)

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)

A friend is one who knows you and loves yu just the same.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver