Quotes About Kindness

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

charitable tolerance. You would find yourself an outcast whom people might pity, but whom, if they were

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

You must do something to make the world more beautiful.

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.

Love was choosing to take care of someone---not just family, but friends, too.

For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.

the giver of comfort, not the recipient.

the kind. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one

I'd bring you flowers

Her favorite Irish saying was 'may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in want,

I should stop feeling sorry for myself and obsessing with what I'd lost and think about what I could do for someone else.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Our power lies in the depth of our compassion and in our abilities to imagine each other in ourselves.

I mull that over. Amber treats everyone out here like normal people, not homeless street losers, and in return they give her their names.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Barbara O'Connor

Suddenly Howard seemed different. He didn't seem so much like a nosy up-down boy, nagging me half to death about being my Backpack Buddy. He seemed more like somebody being nice to me. Somebody I had shared my troubles with.

Barbara O'Connor

It's hard to be nasty to people who have been nice to you.

Sometimes a little pat is all a friend can do.