Quotes About Kindness

Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.

Toddlers just 14 months old will help others by handing them out-of-reach objects, and children as young as three will share their treats with others.

When someone does a professional favor for you, send a handwritten note. You must send a written note to a mentor or sponsor when she helps you. Perhaps even a gift. And here's a great tip from Archambeau: When you take someone's advice, let her know it and how it worked out. So few people ever do that.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

From The Old Order ] The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . .

My mother sits on my shoulder, and my mother: 'Be nice to everyone, son. Make sure you talk to everyone. Ask them a personal question, son. At least pretend like you're sincere.' And her final thing: 'Whoever you meet, make sure they leave your presence happy

Behind all that thunder, you're just pure honey," is as true a statement about Pat Conroy as it is of Jack McCall in Beach Music.

My body was telling me to rest the old machine for a while. Every afternoon about six o'clock I watched The Waltons, to try to heal myself just to get back what human kindness looked like. It was tonic for my soul. That seems so hokey, but that's what I needed right then—hokeyness—some blessed way of living. I was still writing the book somehow, I was drinking too much, and I would await these phone calls from Lenore with dread, just absolute dread.

When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Reverend Green grows sad in his eyes. "And yet, consider how Jesus would've treated the likes of Sarah Good," he remarks. "He'd have fed her without thought, and washed her feet with his own hands. The true Christian doesn't hesitate to make himself humble.

Connie? We are ready for you." It was Professor Silva. Connie sat up. For a split second she faced the certainty that the exam had gone horribly, she had failed, she would have to leave school. But then Connie saw Janine's kind face, framed with ruddy tangles of hair, break into a delighted grin. She threaded an arm around Connie's waist and whispered, "We're celebrating at Abner's after this!" And she knew that it was really about to be over.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Love everybody like you love yourself, and you've got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.

To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.

Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.

What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?

Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.