Quotes about kindness
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May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental, but let us be tolerant, ever emulating the Savior's example of loving-kindness. In that vein, may we willingly serve one another. May we pray for the inspiration to know of the needs of those around us, and then may we go forward and provide assistance. Thomas S. Monson
kindness angel simple
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves. When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings. Richard M. Nixon
kindness compassion kind
Everyone responds to kindness. Richard Gere
kindness responsibility animal
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
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I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. Rebecca Wells
kindness simple mind
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it. Roald Dahl
kindness thinking numbers
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
kindness heart thinking
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. Richard Rohr
kindness grace doe
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance. Tullian Tchividjian
kindness heaven breaths
Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go. Robert W. Service
kindness people brain
...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness. Rob Sheffield
kindness small-kindnesses payoff
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs. Richard Paul Evans
kindness home car
Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that. Russell Banks
kindness people lines
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line. Ruben Studdard
kindness technology compassion
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion? Richard Davidson
kindness empathy gender
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. Rebecca Solnit
kindness world height
Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you. Rhonda Byrne
kindness simple trying
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. Tony Snow
kindness generosity style
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
kindness hard-work men
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb
kindness humanist highest
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . Robert Green Ingersoll
kindness reform civility
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
kindness sunshine virtue
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
kindness blow mind
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
kindness blow mind
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
kindness men order
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them. Samuel Johnson
kindness lost-friendship firsts
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
kindness men advice
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.
kindness littles return
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
kindness waiting charity
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
kindness promise may
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.
kindness fall grief
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.
kindness inspiration social
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.