Quotes About Kindness

Love heals. Love makes us better than we ever thought we could be. Loving someone, the act of loving, is a generous gift. True love is our greatest calling. Not just romantic love, but all love.

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

With a classmate is absent from school for an extended period of time, have your only child call to find out how he is feeling and send to get well card. Have your child offer to bring his assignment home to him or to call him each day after school to keep the homebound student up-to-date.

In real love4 you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Edwin must have extended himself to this woman who the world would never know existed. His compassion for others had a strange effect on me. Every time I learned of some help he gave to someone, I felt he was giving the kindness to me.

All cruelty springs from weakness. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends.

I'm heading over to visit Tess for some tea and sympathy. I don't like tea, Ollie said. What's sympathy taste like? Natalie laughed and ruffled his hair, then got back in the car. Like a melted marshmallow with chocolate sauce.

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.

Never let anyone tell you that food isn't a kind of love. Yet

brutal honesty has its place, but the occasional white lie does wonders for a fragile heart.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite

Without warning a lady appeared. She came from the direction of Friday-street, for she had just been with Mr. Newbolt. She strode capably through the snow. She wore a black silk gown and something very queer swung from a silver chain about her neck. Her smile was full of comfort and her eyes were kind and happy. She was just as Mr. Newbolt had described. And the name of this lady was Death.

Mr. Lascelles whispered to Mr. Drawlight that he had not realized before that doing kind actions would lead to his being addressed in familiar terms by so many low people - it was most unpleasant - he would take care to do no more.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

Ever keep in exercise the principle of mercy, and be ready to forgive our brother on the first intimations of repentance, and asking forgiveness; and should we even forgive our brother, or even our enemy, before he repent or ask forgiveness, our heavenly Father would be equally as merciful unto us.

Normally, we worry about our own material well-being and our neighbor's souls; let us rather worry about our neighbor's material well-being and our own souls" (Rabbi Israel Salanter).

What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. This is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.