Quotes About Kindness

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

Love your body. Be kind to it, nourish it, tender it. It is the pure instrument of expression that allows you to experience life on this plane.

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

The scariest thing about people like Terrence and my parents is not that they can be cruel. It's that they can be kind too.

I'm sixty-seven years old. And, dear, in my sixty-seven years I've never let politics tell me how to treat people.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.