Quotes About Kindness

Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.

My life is full of love; I designed it that way. I try to make my own experience about love and I look for kindness in others. That's the thing I value the most: it will get you through everything.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Love can be its own reward.

What did you write in the letter?" Frog said, "I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' "Oh, said Toad, "that makes a very good letter.

Mensen hebben warmte nodig. Daarop leven ze. Daarvan leven ze. Die warmte is geen misdaad. Het gebrek eraan is de misdaad.

If you want to live, it's good to be friendly.

Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir.

That people with a different perspective hate our country and must be completely destroyed? That if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention? That kindness to your ideological foes is tantamount to weakness?

Mandela had a conviction that only goodness could win in a moral struggle. He believed that even under unjust persecution, people should treat others with kindness and respect, that anything less was a failing of his own character.

Rule 3. Say no to contempt. Treat others with love and respect, even when it's difficult.

I must come back to a point I have made repeatedly: never treat others with contempt, even if you believe they deserve it.

From my earliest days, I learned of the evils of objectifying others.

Bridging, like warm-heartedness, takes courage.

Rule 2. Don't attack or insult. Don't even try to win.

You know what our world needs: more love, less contempt.

Rule 3. Never assume the motives of another person.

Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.

On reflection, I realized that I am the angry one, the ill-tempered one, the miser, and the liar. My job is to conquer me. My tool for doing so is to show warm-heartedness to others, especially when they are not showing it to me. Your opportunity when treated with contempt is to change at least one heart—yours.

When I call for a standard of love, I am asking us all to listen to our hearts, of course. But also to think clearly, look at the facts, and do difficult things when necessary, so that we can truly lift people up and bring them together.

There's a lot of racism around. I am always puzzled when people have that attitude. I went to a place where people were nice to me. It was something that stuck with me. I learned to treat people the same.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.