Quotes About Kindness

Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Tem dó do fardo alheio, porque o seu peso errante Poderá visitar-te a ti e a mim.

but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witt

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others?

Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers

Si les choses n'ont pas, pour vous et moi, tourné aussi mal qu'elles l'auraient pu, c'est en grande partie grâce à ces êtres qui ont vécu loyalement une existence discrète et reposent dans des tombes délaissées.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

What are we here for if not to make life easier for each other?

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

Dear heart, dear heart! But you must have a cup o' tea first, child," said Mrs. Poyser, falling at once from the key of B with five sharps to the frank and genial C.

If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us.

Adam noticed Gyp's mental conflict, and though his anger had made him less tender than usual to his mother, it did not prevent him from caring as much as usual for his dog. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? "Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful. I should have thought that I, at least, might have been safe from all that.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks

A song is not a song until you sing it A bell is not a bell until you ring it Love is not Love until you give it away

Love one another.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

None knows the weight of another's burthen.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.