Quotes About Kindness

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

The man who hastens to tell another man that he has dropped a thousand franc bill from his pocket-book, or even that the handkerchief is coming out of his pocket, would think it a mean thing to warn him that some one was carrying off his wife.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

Son muchos los que ni siquiera hacen el esfuerzo de imaginar el tesoro que duerme en el corazón de los demás.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume. Avvolta da quel tepore, finalmente libera dal peso che mi aveva oppresso fino a quel momento, la mia anima stava fluttuando nell'aria con grande gioia.

Me es difícil resistirme a estas muestras de buenos modales. Tengo la impresión de que estas personas tan bien educadas jamás podrían hacerle nada malo a nadie. Yendo un poco más lejos, parece que sepan discernir a quién sí pueden hacérselo.

Gli esseri umani accolgono ogni cambiamento del proprio animo in una confusione di cose buone e cattive, e da soli portano quel peso per tutta la vita. Pregando, sempre da soli, di essere il più gentile possibile con le persone a cui vogliono bene e a cui sono vicini.

Considering how smart Nakajima was, I bet he could have found a way to express more precisely what it was like to push his body to the limit while studying, or his perspective on the way my emotions were structured inside me. He was just being nice, communicating on my level. That's what made it sound vague.

Here I am playing nicely with the world, trying my best to leave things the tiniest bit better than they were, trying to fly even a little bit higher - how annoying it would be to have to go along with this crap.

??????????????????????? Somos humanos. Sentir dolor es algo desagradable para cualquiera.

This was precisely what made him so nice. He was even considerate to ghosts.

To all the readers who do not know me personally, who were kind enough to take the trouble to read my small effort, I know no greater happiness than that it may have cheered you, even a little. Surely we will meet some day, and until that day, I pray you will live happily.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di pume. Avvolta da quel tepore, finalmente libera dal peso che mi aveva oppresso fino a quel momento, la mia anima stava fluttuando nell'aria con grande gioia.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume.

It always pays to be generous with that which costs you nothing.

From earth, and sky, and sea, Let cheer come unto me, And mirth, and tenderness, And all the things that bless, That I may pass them on to those Who suffer woes; Not keep them for mine own.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form. — DOROTHY ALLISON

One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET

Do not humiliate or ridicule a person in order to persuade him to change