Quotes About Kindness

She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world.

Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.

Don't let old Whaley get you down," he answered. "She likes you OK. You're a good kid.

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

Non dobbiamo mai rimandare a più tardi quando vogliamo aiutare qualcuno.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Just being kind, for instance. A study in New Zealand of diabetic patients in 2016 found that the proportion suffering severe complications was 40 per cent lower among patients treated by doctors rated high for compassion. As one observer put it, that is 'comparable to the benefits seen with the most intensive medical therapy for diabetes'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was at the time American consul in Liverpool, provided a preface, then almost instantly wished he hadn't, for the book was universally regarded by reviewers as preposterous hokum. Hawthorne under questioning admitted that he hadn't actually read it. "This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as [I] live," he vowed in a letter to a friend.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth

do as much as you can for as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's always something good you can do.

Think how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, "Who can we help today and how can we do it?" instead of "Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

Think of how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, Who can we help today and how can we do it? instead of Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

Even on the bad days, there's always something good you can do.

When your heart is filled every day by the kindness of the Father, you have enough of His grace overflowing that you can extend His grace to others.

the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship.

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.

The best presents don't come in boxes.

Tony kept my job open. He offered to backstop me with the money I needed. But it was the way he did it I'll never forget, with love and respect, like a human being holding out his hand to someone who needed it.

Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world

You should care about other people, but not about what they think about you.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.