Quotes about kindness
kindness home giving
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all. Marilynne Robinson
kindness children wish
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them. Maria Montessori
kindness garden
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden. Matsuo Basho
kindness favors ill
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just. Plautus
kindness loss two
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
kindness men purpose
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
kindness men medicine
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. Plato
kindness lost
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
kindness heart donation
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. Mary Engelbreit
kindness exercise produce
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested. Martin Seligman
kindness thinking compassion
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. Martin Scorsese
kindness talking waiting
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth. Laini Taylor
kindness spring numbers
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring) Lisa Kleypas
kindness littles matter
In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence. Nancy Horan
kindness gains courtesy
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. Philip Sidney
kindness needs may
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. Philip James Bailey
kindness fighting years
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come. Myrtle Reed
kindness people
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people. Mignon McLaughlin
kindness war compassion
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
kindness greatness men
To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind. John Wilmot
kindness trying helping
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness. John Wooden
kindness men giving
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury. John Ruskin
kindness believe heart
There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue. John Patrick Shanley
kindness grace and-love
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it. John Owen
kindness thoughtful long
As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come. Joan Baez
kindness blow abuse
A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows. Louise Bogan
kindness character be-kind
Character is the architect of the being. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
kindness thoughtful people
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John Gardner
kindness business comeback
Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do. Jonathan Ive
kindness thinking everyday
How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture. Jonathan Carroll
kindness support fool
Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to? Joanna Garcia
kindness mistake weakness
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. Jim Rohn
kindness acceptance firsts
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. George MacDonald