Quotes About Kindness

Gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, but comes as an evil guest to those who receive it in the hand.

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. It's possible to treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

No act of love is ever wasted.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

All any feeling wants is be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing muumuus and pink rollers. This is simply not true. I often hear a variation on this statement: "If I'm not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?" And the answer is, By doing the opposite of what you think you need to do to change. By being kind to yourself.

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!

La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;

Commending myself to your kind memories, I wish you pleasant holidays.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Liza. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence. Higgins. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

El gran secreto, Elisa, no consiste en tener buenos o malos modales o cualquier clase particular de modales, sino en tratar del mismo modo a todas las almas hermanas; en una palabra: hay que portarse como si uno estuviese en el cielo, donde no hay vagones de tercera ni reservados, y en donde un alma es tanto como la otra. ELISA

Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always." (Matthew 26:10–11)

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.