Quotes About Kindness

I tried to sound firm without being harsh. "You

This simple but profound service—to grasp a fading man's need for everyday comforts, for companionship, for help achieving his modest aims—is the thing that is still so devastatingly lacking more than a century later.

Neff's philosophy is, as he put it, "hard on behavior but soft on the person.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.

It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...] ~ Augusto Boal

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. " ? Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

It's easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

You Get Out Of A Valley Sooner When You Manage To Get Outside Of Yourself: At Work, By Being Of Greater Service, And In Life, By Being More Loving.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

There was nothing to be gained by making a man feel unkind for having to refuse a favor, or weak in revealing his inability to do so.

That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.

Nie wystarczy, by?my byli szcz??liwi - trzeba jeszcze, by nieszcz??liwi byli inni!

La morale è: non dobbiamo ridere quando siamo contenti noi, ma quando sono contenti loro.

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

The renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead said that what marks the beginning and assures the continuity of civilization is compassion.

Notice one beautiful thing about every person who crosses your path.

saying thank you. Always. It keeps your heart and your mind in a place of gratitude, which is the best place to be if you want to enjoy a cozy life.

Find time for charitable works.

one who loves himself should not harm others.