Quotes About Kindness

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

Our most important work is love.

it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the most gracious souls the world has ever known. The story is told of an Abba

Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping.

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.

Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.

And if there is something that is not good, then there is something that is good. If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

The world is set hard against us, of a certainty, but man's inhumanity to man is something even worse.

You are not simply your own possession to torture and mistreat

If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

Consider then that the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering is a good. Make that an axiom: to the best of my ability I will act in a manner that leads to the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering.

I continued asking questions. The answers came within seconds. What shall I do with the stranger? Invite him into my house, and treat him like a brother, so that he may become one. That's to extend the hand of trust to someone so that his or her best part can step forward and reciprocate. That's to manifest the sacred hospitality that makes life between those who do not yet know each other possible.

Možda spašavate nekoga zato što ste snažna, velikodušna, sre?ena osoba koja želi u?initi pravu stvar. Ali mogu?e je - i, možda, ?ak vjerojatnije - da samo želite usmjeriti pažnju na svoje neisrpive zalihe suosje?anja i dobre volje. (...) Ili možda zato što je lakše izgledati krjeposnim kada stojite pored nekoga posve neodgovorna. Prvo pretpostavite da ?inite najlakšu stvar, a ne onu najtežu.

What could I do, that I would do, to make Life a little better?" You are not dictating to yourself what "better" must be.

The people from whom you want thanks might not be very proficient in offering it, to begin with, but that shouldn't stop you.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive.

To give is to do what you can to make things better. The good in people will respond to that, and support it, and imitate it, and multiply it, and return it, and foster it, so that everything improves and moves forward.

A little careful kindness goes a long way, and judicious reward is a powerful motivator.

Benjamin Franklin once suggested that a newcomer to a neighbourhood ask a new neighbour to do him or her a favour, citing an old maxim: He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Podrías empezar tratándote como a alguien a quien tienes la responsabilidad de ayudar.

You could begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

And maybe this whole thing has taught me something else about what kindness is for. Because, looking back at this year, I still basically did fail when I tried to protect everybody. But that doesn't mean my efforts didn't matter. Maybe kindness spreads slowly, and even fails for a while, but then sort of seeps through again and keeps moving outward, until you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a ring of fellow hamster owners who used to be your enemies.

Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.

Pirulito rezava, pedia a Deus que voltasse a ser suprema bondade, não fosse suprema justiça.