Quotes About Kindness

When I'm with you, I don't feel self-conscious or like I'm crippled or ugly. I don't know how you do that, but it's nice.

Be like this cup. Hold much, give much, and become rich with what is within you.

If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.

Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.

You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, that matters.

Each of us must find a way to love the world. You have found yours.

All my life, longings lived inside me, rising up like nocturnes to wail and sing through the night. That my husband bent his heart to mine on our thin straw mat and listened was the kindness I most loved in him. What he heard was my life begging to be born.

Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

I'd heard August say more than once, If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.

Indeed, love is everything.

In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us.

it's something everybody wants—for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel…but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

You don't have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love

Pay them no mind and turn the other cheek. Their hearts are boulders and their heads are straw.

My own largeness has been to bless yours.

You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart—now, that matters.

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself

Though I have all knowledge and all faith, and have not charity, I am nothing.

He learned well, and his suffering didn't harden him. It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.