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Quotes About Kindness

if you live simply and with a lyrical heart in the cumbered neighborhoods or even, as Mozart sometimes managed to, in a palace, offering tune after tune after tune, making some hard-hearted prince prudent and kind, just by being happy
~ Mary Oliver
You listen and you know You could live a better life than you do, be Softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will Be able to do it.
~ Mary Oliver
Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason.
~ Mary Oliver
If you think you see a face in the clouds, why not send a greeting? It can't do any harm.
~ Mary Oliver
Take it," he said. "Are you sure?" Jack asked. He knew it was Brother Michael's life's work. "Please," said Brother Michael. "It is better that the world should have some of it than none at all. Just in case…
~ Mary Pope Osborne
They're all amazingly nice
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Can you do me a great favor?" he asked. "I would be most grateful." "Of course," said Annie.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
P9 Remember the three rules of the wand said Kathleen. Sure, said Annie. You can only use it for the good of others. You can only use it after you've tried your hardest. And you can only use it with a command of five words.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, our loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.
~ Mary Roach
She wrote, "I can never thank you enough, Mrs. Robertson, for being so kind and understanding with the whole of Fleet Street following me!!
~ Mary Robertson
My companion had recently lunched with Diana at Kensington Palace. She said being with Diana was like "being brushed by angels' wings.
~ Mary Robertson
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
~ Mary Shelley
There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.
~ Mary Shelley
Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
~ Mary Shelley
Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.
~ Mary Shelley
theses bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than ur fellow creatures .
~ Mary Shelley
I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it
~ Mary Shelley
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
~ Mary Shelley
I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?
~ Mary Shelley
In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
~ Mary Shelley
This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.
~ Mary Shelley
He raised her, and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I have never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
~ Mary Shelley
No desespere. Es triste no tener amigos, pero los corazones de los hombres, cuando no tienen prejuicios, siempre están llenos de amor fraternal y caridad. Tenga fe en sus esperanzas; y si esos amigos son buenos y amables. no desespere.
~ Mary Shelley
Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity (p.139).
~ Mary Shelley