Quotes About Kindness

He loved her, and she didn't love him, but that didn't mean they had to be assholes about it.

God protect the halt and the lame," he muttered. "Also the purblind fools. And one Kit Marlowe, wherever he may be.

While thou art looking out for the halt and the stupid, Lord, let me put in a word for a crippled bird as well.

What is it that thou seekest, Elf-Knight? Thou hast not made that plain to me, but thou must have some use for me, or thou wouldst not have been so kind, so long.

Somewhere, he found a smile that was positively sunny, and gave it to her.

When all else failed, her grandmother Mary would have said, good manners never deserted one.

Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe. Somebody arranges the rows of cans so that they softly say: esso—so—so—so to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living—no matter our unworthiness.

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.

Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?

There are some people who don't realize what it is they are doing to others until they are paid back in their own coin. But those are not the worst. The worst are those whose unkindness is calculated.