Quotes About Kindness

You're really a good girl, poor you.

There is a poverty that makes us all cruel.

Even if we're continually tempted to lower our guard - for love or weariness, for sympathy or kindness - we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we've achieved.

How wonderful to travel, how wonderful to know someone who knows everything, whose intelligence and looks and kindness are extraordinary, and who explains to you the value of what by yourself you wouldn't be able to appreciate.

El que detenta el poder siempre está obligado a ser el más generoso. •José Ignacio Barraza, de la Facultad de Leyes de la UNAM

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Remember, you have the best heart and mind, and whatever you do is right. Bye-bye, my sweet. Don't forget the food group.

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

The gift of giving is to see the receiver give to someone else.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.

el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».

Also, we need to help ourselves before we can benefit others: 'that one who is himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is impossible; that one who is not himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is possible', says the Buddha.

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown)

A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Älä toivo minulle pahaa, toivo mielummin itsellesi hyvää.

A genuine kindness is usually not appreciated in a wicked world full of foolish , dubious and selfish people.