Quotes About Kindness

If true compassion for others is awakened, you start ignoring your own misery.

I have learned to value the things others are reluctant to give.

It was she who stated that compassion was the best part of wisdom.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, and so on and so on.

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Don't need to love someone to be compassionate.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

After the verb "to love,", "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

L'avenir appartient à la gentillesse.

The only thing that can win over evil is love. Learn to love, strive to love, cause we ain't got time for nothing else.

Alas, weWho wished to lay the foundations of kindness,Could not ourselves be kind.But you, when at last it comes to passThat man can help his fellow man,Do not judge usToo harshly.

Von der Freundlichkeit der Welt (Bertold Brecht 1921) Auf die Erte voller kaltem Wind Kamt ihr alle als ein nacktes Kind. Frierend lagt ihr ohne alle Hab Als ein Weib euch eine Windel gab. Keiner schrie euch, ihr wart nicht begehrt Und man holte euch nicht im Gefaehrt. Hier auf Erden wart ihr unbekannt Als ein Mann euch einst nahm an der Hand. Von der Erde voller kaltem Wind Geht ihr all bedeckt mit Schorf und Grind. Fast ein jeder hat die Welt geliebt, Wenn man ihm zwei Haende Erde gibt.

O du schwacher Gut gesinnter, aber schwacher Mensch! Wo da Not ist, denkt er, gibt es keine Güte!

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

It occurred to me that that's what friends should do: cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

We all need to be careful in this world, but I promise you, for every bad person on this earth there's a hundred good ones.