Quotes About Kindness

For a while I was the only recipient of Bailey's kindness. It was not that he pitied me but that he felt we were in the same boat for different reasons, and that I could countenance my withdrawal.

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Rather I like to think of myself as charitable. The charitable say in effect, "I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you." Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

I decided I wouldn't pee on her if her heart was on fire.

Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept those legacies of my departed beloveds, I am able to say, Thank You to them for their love and Thank You to God for their lives.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.

You cannot be consistently fair or just or kind or generous or loving without courage. It is time for you to decide privately, secretly, in your own place inside yourselves, what you will do. You have to come to peace with a peaceful heart.

Don't run yourself down, darling, there are plenty of people in the world who will do that for you.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex since he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.

It is by observation that in the future they will not remember what you said, they will not remember what you did, but they will remember how you made them feel.

You don't have to nurse her. There are nurses here to do that. I only want you to hold her hand.

I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. I am happy to describe myself as charitable.

I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book. It was enough to prove that she liked me.

I'd call a place pure paradise where families are loyal and strangers are nice, where the music is jazz and the season is fall. Promise me that or nothing at all.

People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Use a minute feel some sorrow for the folks who think tomorrow is a place that they can call up on the phone. Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but, people will never forget how you made them feel.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.