Quotes About Kindness

Despite his aggressive looks, Tomás was a peaceful and good-hearted person whose appearance discouraged confrontations.

Every self-respecting persuasive ploy must first appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse.

He even went so far as to give his wife, Sophie, a dress and a pair of new shoes for the first time in fourteen years.

However many sorrows you drag along with you, you'll only have walked a few steps before bumping into someone who will remind you that there's always another person with a far worse set of cards than yours in the game of life.

I looked at her, a broken woman with tears in her eyes, and didn't wish for anything in the world other than the ability to give her back what she'd never had.

Los regalos se hacen por gusto del que regala no por mérito del que recibe

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them," said my father.

Despite myself, I could feel my eyes filling with tears and I turned my head so that she couldn't see my face. Isabella turned off the light on the bedside table and stayed there, sitting close to me in the dark, listening to the weeping of a miserable drunk, asking no questions, offering no opinion, offering nothing other than her company and her kindness, until I fell asleep.

lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede. La sombra del viento

I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest speech in the world and [they are] gentle and always laughing

If you need a handout, all you have to do is ask, please. Only Mimi could be so nice to a thief, Grant muttered under his breath.

In a civil war," he said gently, "people forget that they are people. Next they forget anyone else is a person. They forget how to be kind. They learn to hurt. In our wars, they might execute you, but usually they chop hands off, so that you suffer before you die. If you live, you are helpless and must depend on others.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It

We need never feel either that we have too far to travel or that we have already arrived and can stop practicing the everyday virtues of compassion and mindfulness.

Living and getting to know folks' hearts, that's what matters." "He's not only handsome

I could have hugged the woman. "Thank you for

Give it to Charity. I don't want it anymore.

there was no room in a heart for both love and hate. She said that hate would soon eat up its half of the heart and want more and more until soon there would be no love left for anyone.

my precious mama used to tell me that there was no room in a heart for both love and hate.

What would Betsy tell Marty about poor

One of my favorite sayings is that a change in behavior begins with a change in the heart

serve it also. The corners of her full mouth turned

Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love

Pretty," she commented to herself. "Oh, why can't all people be nice like this scenery and not make trouble?