Quotes About Kindness

But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

we do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while

Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen.

There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind, of all spirits, of all things under the sun. It's not a virtue with me. I don't know any other way to move through the world.

But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.

The greatest creative power you have on earth... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle.

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.

LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.

Do it for a world that will never knew you or thank you, but a world that you can now truly save.

He didn't have to make the flowers fall," I said. "I taught him not to hurt things that were pretty. I taught him that when we were small.

Be old enough and patient enough for kinds of love, seasons of it, be quiet in your soul so that when happiness comes again, if it ever does, you will know.

It was so simple to smile at him; he deserved one's tenderest smile.

what endures is what has always mattered: love—that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good—that hope will be realized through love.

I drew from him an easy intimacy which he had denied all those who had tormented him, so dazzled and confused was he by my simple kindnesses and the words I whispered in his tender ears.

Love we need, and love can make us forget and forgive the savagery, as perhaps nothing else can.

Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen, even to pray, though to whom I prayed I wasn't sure, and it was to take every opportunity to be generous to those mortals whom I did not kill.

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a smile

In my country they have proverb: 'Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' " This was intriguing. Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses." "And little cruelties," he said.

You would think this realization would come as a relief to him. And it did, in part. He felt a rush of love for his whole family, whom it seemed he had underestimated. He had thought that guarding his secret was a kindness to them; he was protecting them from knowledge that would hurt them. But now he saw that not telling them had been more hurtful, and it was they who had been kind.

Because if you're going to do someone a favor, her father used to tell her, you might as well do it graciously.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

If you can't say something nice,' " Jason mumbled, " 'don't say nothing at all.'