Quotes About Kindness

To be gentle is to encourage ourselves.

Happiness is not necessarily how many things we have—happiness is the ability to share what we have with others.

is the ability to share what we have with others.

However, especially in an age of coarsening values, it is hard to feel our natural kindness because it is often blocked by reactionary emotions. This occurs when we divide the world into us versus them. Then the more we forget our kindness, the more unkindness there is, and the more we forget.

One of my favorite sayings is "If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

when you give love... it grows and grows.

when you give.. it grows and grows.

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.

Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day.

Manners: The Gift of a Gracious

Sally Goldenbaum

Sally Goldenbaum

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

This kind of telescopic compassion is not an uncommon phenomenon, and has a close relative in the kindness one sees displayed toward pampered urban household pets, even as, a stones throw away, homeless people sleep on benches.

Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can, I shall not pass this way again.

We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we would want to be treated.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone....

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.