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Quotes About Understanding

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
~ Wendy Mass, The Candymakers
You can never go wrong with kindness.
~ Megan Young
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
~ Roald Dahl
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
~ Colin Powell
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
~ Aldous Huxley
Everyone responds to kindness.
~ Richard Gere
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
~ Don Van Vliet
What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
~ Marianne Williamson
The art of being kind is all the world needs.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.
~ George Saunders
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Kindness in words creates confidence.
~ Laozi
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
~ Laozi
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
~ Robert Breault