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Quotes About Kindness

I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.
~ Harper Lee
Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.
~ Harper Lee
Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining
~ Harper Lee
That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?
~ Harper Lee
a gang of wild animals can be stopped,simply because they're still human.
~ Harper Lee
Querida, nunca pode tomar como um insulto que as pessoas te chamem nomes feios. Só mostra até que ponto essa pessoa é pobre de espírito, mas não pode te magoar.
~ Harper Lee
Gli usignoli non fanno nient'altro che donare musica agli uomini. Non divorano gli orti della gente, né fanno il nido nei covoni; non fanno altro che cantare per noi con tutta l'anima. Ecco perché è peccato uccidere un usignolo.
~ Harper Lee
I do my best to love everybody . . . I'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.
~ Harper Lee
not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.
~ Harper Lee
Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht.
~ Harper Lee
Regarding people who were difficult to accept or respect, Nelle said, Our response to these people represents our earthly test. And I think, that these people enrich the wonder of our lives. It is they who most need our kindness, because the seem less deserving. After all, anyone can love people who are lovely
~ Harper Lee
It's not okay to hate anybody
~ Harper Lee
Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down.
~ Harriet Lerner
wish I was a better human. I wish we had food for the hungry and harmony between nations.
~ Harry Bingham
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
~ Haruki Murakami
So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
~ Haruki Murakami
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
~ Haruki Murakami
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
~ Haruki Murakami
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
~ Haruki Murakami
By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
~ Haruki Murakami
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
~ Haruki Murakami
No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.
~ Haruki Murakami
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
~ Haruki Murakami
But still, Ayumi said, it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. You may be right, Aomame said, But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
~ Haruki Murakami