Quotes About Kindness

My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.

Lady Diana melted my heartstrings in her dirty white dress. She even helped an old man up the aisle. I thought it was very kind of her considering it was her wedding day. Loads of dead famous people were there. Nancy Reagan, Spike Milligan, Mark Phillips, etc., etc. The Queen looked a bit jealous. I expect it was because people weren't looking at her for a change.

cause after politics economics war & illness, we still break each other's hearts - search mercy, aim compassion.

Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta," Mithan said. "It means good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

Magnanimity does not make you affluent but it buy you gems a affluent can't..

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

Be good. It'll be a new experience.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Oh, child, there's no explainin' the meanness in this world." Armetta shakes her head, wipes wetness off her cheek, then cradles my hands in her palms. "But there's goodness here, too. You can't never lose sight of that, hold on to it. It's the goodness that gets us through.

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.

But you must recollect that every time you forget, and are impatient or selfish, you chill them and drive them farther away. They are loving little things, and are so sorry for you now, that nothing you do makes them angry. But by and by they will get used to having you sick, and if you haven't won them as friends, they will grow away from you as they get older.

My father raised us like... we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, 'Oh that fat person, or this person,' he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren't allowed to look at people like that.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

I don't usually talk about the social work I do because I don't do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I'd be happy.

I believe in being good to people and doing social work.

Our neighbors who have fallen on hard times can use basic sanitary items, such as soap, socks and undergarments; when we go shopping for ourselves, how about adding an extra item for someone in need?

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.

The more I prayed for my enemies, the softer my heart became.

Fair and softly goes far.