Quotes About Kindness

The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

What was most annoying was that at first blush people usually took me to be good, to be kind, generous, loyal, faithful. Perhaps I did possess these virtues but if so it was because I was indiferent: I could afford to be good, kind, generous, loyal, and so forth, since I was free of envy. Envy was the one thing I was never a victim of. I have never envied anybody or anything. On the contrary, I have only felt pity for everybody and everything.

There are no facts--there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some men take the short route. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

The one thing that we can never get enough of is Love and the one thing we never give enough is Love.

Jesus made a number of explicit statements, injunctions really. All to the effect that one was to take no thought but to respond immediately to any appeal for aid. And to respond in large measure. To give your cloak as well as your coat, to walk two miles and not one. And as we know well, with these injunctions went another, more important one—to return good for evil. "Resist not evil!

everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.

You have to get beyond pity, in order to feel from the very roots of your being. One can't make a new heaven and earth with facts. There are no facts. There is only the fact man, every man, everywhere in the world is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route, and some take the short route. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way, and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous and patient.

Had I my choice of all things that might tend to my present felicity, I would pitch upon this, to have my heart possessed with the greatest kindness and affection towards all men in the world. I

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Only that which is truly given, answered the bell-like voice. Only that good which is done for the love of doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of others is the master thought. Only those labors in which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only those gifts in which the giver forgets himself.

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." —

Selain berlaku adil, marilah kita juga bersifat pemaaf.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.