Quotes About Kindness

humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.

Beware of pity.

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

In medicine the use of the knife is often the kinder course.

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness ...; and the other, the only kind that counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

It's no use torturing oneself; it only tortures other people.

Help anyone and everyone so far as in you lies. Cease to be apathetic, indifferent! Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, By enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Merit? s? iei asupra ta o povar? grea dac? în felul acesta poÅ£i uÅŸura povara unui alt om"(Suflete zbuciumate)

it's always good to know that one has saved at least one person, kept faith with one person, made a good job of one thing.

Die einzige Möglichkeit, den Hass zu bekämpfen, muss aus uns selbst kommen.

Mais ta beauté est si singulière, c'est une bonté ouverte où chacun peut se servir autant que ses mains le lui permettent, elle est si grande, infiniment grande ta bonté, mais pardonne-moi- elle est indolente.

Ä°nsana mutluluk kadar saÄŸl?k katan bir ÅŸey yoktur ve en büyük mutluluk da bir baÅŸka insan? mutlu etmektir.

Die erste Lehre war gegeben: daß die großen Männer immer die gütigsten sind.

Only those with whom life had dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love.

pity is a double-edged weapon. If you don't know how to handle it you had better not touch it, and above all you must steel your heart against it. Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

You act like a team player,you be nice to everyone for your entire life,then you die.

Hey, more cash! This woman sent twenty dollars… and a coupon for diapers. Wait—that's a little mean.

They had been nice to her, that was the surprising thing. She though they'd be cutting and they were kind. Welcoming.

Clearly the crucial issue in the success of an intimate sexual relationship or very close friendship is not one of sexuality or of gender. More important than either is the conscious willingness of two people or a whole family or community to think about each other with generosity, openness, tolerance and respect, conscious that this counts for something only when it is also translated into behaviours that are routinely respectful, thoughtful and kind.

I've come to realize that love has nothing to do with "never having to say you're sorry." Love is an action that does what's best for the other person.

In a world full of sadness and travail, kindness is not to be underestimated. You have the change to do a great deal of good, my dear, just by showing kindness to those the trail brings your way. Whatever you do, do your work heartily, not as unto men, but as unto God. He will take notice and He will be pleased.