Quotes About Kindness

most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them...

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

Oysa keçiyi çöle sürüklemenin ve törenle kayal?ktan aÅŸa?? atman?n gereksizliÄŸini fark etmek için bak??lar?m?z? dürüstçe kendi içimize çevirmemiz yetecektir.

You always do that, you know," Alec said. I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?" "Bite their heads off first." I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. If you could choose, would you rather be eaten alive starting at your feet or would you want it to be over quickly?

I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The other life isn't here anymore. This new world has its own rules. Survival of the fittest is one of them. If you're hoping for kindness and pity, don't hold your breath.

A private wealth-management firm always invited the wife of one of the company's executives to events. Everyone knew that she would be the first to say hello, to offer a hand, or to help someone find a seat. She always acted as if she were greeting people in her own home, said the event manager. She was better than most of our salespeople. Be first. Take the initiative. People appreciate it when you make the effort.

I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

This is the gift great souls leave us when they die. They enlarge our hearts. They leave us a greater capacity for love.

The word compassion means "with suffering." To have compassion is to willingly join in suffering—to show those you love that you will not let them suffer

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.

His coming to you, and your loving him, was a counterbalance, in a way, to the world's mistreatment of pigs

May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.

Becoming aware of fragility, of temporality, of the fact that we will surely all be lost to one another, sooner or later, mandates a clear imperative to be totally kind and loving to each other always [p.119].

The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

it's just a fact that any pain we cause someone else will eventually do more damage to us than to them. And frankly, we've all got enough problems without piling that on ourselves on top of everything else.

The religion of Islam views animals as a special part of God's creation and generally extols kindness to animals, but like Judaism and Christianity animals are not considered to be the equal of humankind.

She reached for another piece of bacon, then handed it to me. True love.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. --from Kindness, written 1 February 1963

I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

I had never met a misogynist before. I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. Not out of kindness or even curiosity, but because I'd happened to be dealt to him, like a playing card in a pack of identical cards.

How I would like to believe in tenderness.

The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. 'Kindness' by Sylvia Plath