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Quotes About Understanding

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.
~ Sophia Bush
Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.
~ Allison McAtee
Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.
~ Beth Moore
Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
~ Betty White
Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.
~ Allen Drury
The kind need kindness most of all.
~ Katharine Tynan
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
~ John Ross Macduff
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
~ Alan Cohen
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
~ Kim Harrison
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
~ Jack Kornfield
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
~ Willa Cather
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness comes with no price.
~ Laurence Yep
Err in the direction of kindness.
~ George Saunders
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
~ Nhat Hanh
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
~ Donna Tartt
The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
~ Dalai Lama