Quotes About Kindness

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Love weighs nothing.

nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Remember how we use to pray to get invited to birthday parties? And they only asked us because we were so grateful we'd do anything, stay late and help the mothers wash the cake pans. I'm still that girl, flattered to death if somebody wants me around.

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. What I want is almost so simple I can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.

The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that's in people's hearts, or what they're liable to do about it, given the chance.

One day we came home from some errands to find a grocery sack of them hanging on our mailbox. The perpetrator, of course, was nowhere in sight. "Wow," we all said—"what a good idea!" Garrison Keillor says July is the only time of year when country people lock our cars in the church parking lot, so people won't put squash on the front seat. I used to think that was a joke.

nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He

the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.

nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

One other person can go a long way towards making your world right," she said, "but the support has to run both ways.

down from the chair. And he gave Maxine lots more