Quotes About Kindness

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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It had been a short conversation. It had also been the kindest they had shared in longer than ten years.

It was you who made my growing years bearable . . . You gave me everything you were able to give—you gave me love. It has been enough. It is the only thing that really matters, you know.

But it felt so good, so good to let someone else carry her burdens for just a little while.

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, In this world, Elwood, you must be - she always called me Elwood - In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart or -oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.

In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. ~Elwood P. Dowd

In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. ' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

There was a real sweetness to that man: a special sort of gentleness that you see sometimes in people who've been hurt bad but don't want revenge. [Bessie about James]

Over days and weeks and months, he helped me feel that I was part of humanity, and not with his kindness alone; it was his silliness, his humor, his dirtiness that rekindled my spirit.

I don't know who these people are, he said, or why you would care about their opinion. But there is nothing sick or worthless about you. You are a lovely spirit.

Maybe, she thought, this experience would be good. It would probably be improving to focus on the problems of others for a change.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild, elsewise every raped baby would grow up to raped.

You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it.

To bring oneself to others makes the whole planet less lonely. The nobility of everybody trying boggles the mind.

you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.

And the most important thing he told me was that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat their dogs.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

You don't want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don't want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it's the same old story - - - a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world. (from, Dogfish)

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

and anyway it's just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world.