Quotes About Kindness

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

Do you want me to leave this with you?" "Sure you don't mind?" "Nah." I handed him the carton and spoon. "Enjoy." My offer wasn't totally generous. I took perverse pleasure at the thought he'd think about me with each bite.

It makes you feel good about yourself, especially in the beginning. It makes you feel good about other people. You want to give the whole world a break, a time-out, a tender regard. There

Perhaps we are no longer a kind people. More and more, we seem to have become numb to the suffering of others and ashamed of our own suffering. Yet suffering is one of the universal conditions of being alive. We all suffer. We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

Over the years I have learned that "cleaning up one's act" may be far less important than consecrating one's life. It may be possible to use everything. A ruthless man may be able to open doors that a more kindly and traditionally spiritual person could knock on forever. Without judgment, many things can be made holy.

I am no longer as inspired by expertise as I once was. Perhaps the worth of any lifetime is measured more in kindness than in competency.

When we recognize the spark of God in others, we blow on it with our attention and strengthen it. No matter how deeply it has been buried or for how long .... When we bless someone, we touch the unborn goodness in them and wish it well.

Understanding the suffering is beyond me. Understanding the healing is, too. But in this moment, I am here. Use me.

No matter what means we use, service is always a work of the heart. There are times when the power of science is so seductive that we may come to feel that all that is required to serve others is to get our science right, our diagnosis, our treatment. But science can never serve unless it is first translated by people into a work of the heart.

Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.

Love is infinitely more powerful than hate,

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

You don't have to be friends with everybody, you just can't be unkind to anybody.

Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.

he didn't have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.

We also need to think all year long about people around us who might need something happy in their world.

The moment I heard your store had been robbed and that the little shits had left such a mess behind, I knew I would be spending the afternoon helping you clean it up." "I

Every child deserved to grow up in a home filled with warmth and love, not strict rules and harsh discipline.

The mantra of her parents seemed to echo in her head, almost as if they were both talking to her like the angels Olivia had imagined. If they were here, they would have told her the only way to survive heartache and pain this intense was to throw herself into doing something nice for someone else.

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

no matter how difficult our own journey, sometimes the only thing that can ease our path is to stop for a while and gather strength by lifting someone else's burden.