Quotes About Kindness

Look for the best in everybody

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

Find the best in everybody... you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. 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. (p. 22)

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.

people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.

S HOWING GRATITUDE is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Almost everybody has a good side.

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

I always liked telling my students: "Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

I always liked telling my students: "Go out do for others what somebody did for you

Work hard, pay your own way, and you'll never owe anyone anything but kindness.

Size does matter: Try to surround yourself with people who are blessed with a big heart.

God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable.

Your influence on us all, from 1939 on, cannot be measured. i can only say i remember, warmly, your many kindnesses to me when i was 192021 years old. that young man basked in your light and will continue to be grateful for the help you offered when i was so poor & needful!

How does a husband do that? Not by browbeating his wife—God doesn't treat us that way—but by encouraging her:

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

Be the light at the end of the tunnel. Be the reason for the end of someone else's struggle.

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.

Liebet eure Feinde, tut denen Gutes, die euch hassen‹, hat er gesagt. Und: ›Segnet die, die euch verfluchen,