Quotes About Kindness

Cause punishment takes the friendly right out of you.

Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.

Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they then perform some kind action.

Such a nice couple they made, Sister Dew thought, seeing him return alone to his own house. She wondered if she should take him one of the steak and kidney pies she had baked that morning, but then – with unusual delicacy – judged it to be not quite the moment. And of course there was no question of taking one to Miss Broome – one did not take cooked food to lone women in the same way as to lone men.

Jane wanted to agree and to offer him the broken dwarf, perhaps for Constance's grave, as a kind of comment on the futility of earthly love, but instead she said gently, 'You must make Jessie happy. That will be the right thing for you now.

Although invariably kind and courteous he had the air of seeming not to be particularly interested in human beings – a somewhat doubtful quality in a parish priest, though it had its advantages.

Later that evening, as we sat in the garden having drinks, I caught Harry looking at me with a kind of doggy devotion in his eyes. I leaned back in my chair, well satisfied, both with my drink in such pleasant surroundings and with his devotion. It seemed like a balm to heal the little wound inflicted by Piers's unkindness.

Whoever says that girls are kind has never lived among them.

Each time you judge yourself, you break your heart.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

If you have something to give -- throw it out of the window; The one who needs it will come along with eyes bent on the ground.

You can do so much for me by lending me your hand occasionally, that I wonder why you shrink from it.

Praise at least as often as you disparage.

Special kinda warm,

She strokes my cheek. "Don't hate yourself, sweetheart. It gets you nothing. It gets you nowhere.

if I say nothing, she gets angry, and I don't like to make her angry. Not because of anything she does or says when she's angry, but just because making her angry makes me sad. She doesn't deserve it.

A little bit of kindness goes a long way with women.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor but bear no sin because of him. You

I hope you will leave the world a better place than you found it."     —Jane Yolen

My mother says I should be nice to everyone. Either school was different when she was young or she just doesn't remember.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

that he that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man, and least of all things is proud.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Bashar H. Malkawi

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.