Quotes About Kindness

If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.

I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.

A benevolent act is like a locust: it sleeps until it is called.

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action.

softness overcomes hardness.

ahimsa, or nonviolence

Why would we not only believe, but become eternally beholden to some unctuous car salesman who claims to be putting the lives of his own children at risk by throwing in floor mats and a bug deflector? (I know why I would--because I'm so emotionally gullible, so desperate for tiny kindnesses in my misery.)

As Martin Luther King Jr. prophesied, "I believe what the self-centered have torn down, the other-centered will build up.

Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there's the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble.

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. —BUDDHA

And kindness is enlivened and released through the risk of immediate care. It is the practice of allowing compassion to guide us, the practice of uncovering our intimacy with all things. Together, meaning, truth, and kindness connect everything, forming a lifeline we can hold on to, no matter the storm.

The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.

We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion.

It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim.

Love is the commitment to treat a person with dignity and kindness regardless of how you feel about him or her.

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Mercedes] learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

What did you do before there were drugs? Before there were antibiotics?  . . . You learned to sit on the bedside and hold the hand  . . . every once in a while you gave the person a hug.

Shockingly, people here, throughout the country, after being relentlessly screwed by history, are just as relentlessly nice.