Quotes About Kindness

He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand

You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. Mara to Kamilo.

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

we convince ourselves that we're getting affection when we're not. This is common with families and communities where abuse is prevalent. We don't always want to see that our actions (or those of our leaders or family members) are unkind and potentially abusive. We want so badly to be cared for and connected to someone that, rather than facing the pain and fear, we adjust our perception of love to fit the dysfunctional patterns.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

To feel for someone enlarges the self and then the self shares risks and pains.

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you.

There's so much other work love has to do in the world.

Even if we can't completely comprehend, we might care.

Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia.

The fairy godmother replied that true magic is to help each thing become its best and most free self.

Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis, in fairy tales and sometimes in actuality.

Addressing our own suffering while learning not to inflict it on others is part of the work we're all here to do.

There is always someone whose suffering is greater than yours. The reproaches are often framed as though there is an economy of suffering, and of compassion, and you should measure yourself, price yourself, with the same sense of scarcity and finite resources that govern monetary economies, but there is no measure of either.

it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we're calling out for help.

The U.S. Post Office at San Francisco forwarded unstamped mail, often written on scraps and oddments, from the survivors to destinations around the country. ... There were callous and fearful authorities who lashed out, but also institutions such as the post office that just quietly broke the rules to make life a little less disastrous.

it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped.

In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.

addressing our own suffering while learning not to inflict it on others is part of the work we're all here to do.

As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?