Quotes About Kindness

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Respect is crucial to relational health.

We are never so loving toward others as when we have learned to be loving toward ourselves.

Don't wait to give until you receive; anyone can give something after they've first been given something themselves.

Because God is love, it's a pretty safe bet that whatever way God loves people is the way that we should try to love them also.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

New Yorkers, New Yorkers like to say, pull together in times of crisis. They are magnificent at rising to difficult occasions. In a blizzard they reach out to help the aged lady cross the street. In a transit strike New Yorkers with automobiles offer lifts to strangers. In a blackout they emerge to help direct traffic and open up their houses to the hapless and the stranded.

We call that make their day. We look for as many ways as we can to create great memories. And we create great memories whenever we make someone's day.

Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.

He saw that true living was living for the sake of others. He was freed from the bondage of his awkward, inept, fearful self.

I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

May you turn stone, my daughter, into silk. May you make men better than they are.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

In relation to the results, we need to be aware of the quality of our words and whether they are helpful, kind, and reduce suffering in the world, or do the opposite. How do they land within someone else'sinner life? Do they cause confusion, disturbance, defensiveness, anger? Or do they help trigger calmness, confidence, clarity and kindness?

Start small. Identify a few things around you that others need help with. Paul Newman started small. He grew up a few blocks from my home in Shaker Heights and sold lemonade on the corner. Now he sells lemonade all over the world, and most of the profits go to help children. The key here is to do something small with a big heart and stick with it.

Stephen G. Post

Be nice to everyone you meet on the way up because you will meet them again on the way down.

You cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.