Quotes About And Kindness

#1. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

Pope Francis

#3. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

Stephanie Dowrick

#4. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#5. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Baggini

#6. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#7. I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

Max Lucado

#8. Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

Pema Chodron

#10. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Mother Teresa

#12. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Albert Pike

#13. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Dave Matthews

#14. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.

Heather Stang

#15. Everyone comes into your life to fulfill a purpose of their life. So help them with love, kindness, and care.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#17. To fill the world with joy and happiness give the gift of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.

Alistair Begg

#19. Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

#20. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."

Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#21. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

#22. The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.

Rose Tremain

#23. Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

John Ruskin

#24. May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Leta B.

#25. It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.

Steve Maraboli

#26. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

Catherine Lacey

#27. Kindness and compassion are sisters but not twins. One you can buy, the other is priceless.

Janet Mock

#28. In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#29. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Mother Teresa

#30. They say practice mindfulness, practice meditation, practice kindness, practice breathing. I found no answers and wanted to practice driving a tank through a department store.

Jon Konrath

#31. Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#32. In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#33. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

Sharon Salzberg

#34. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#35. For my father, being kind was natural ... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

David Copperfield

#36. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Are you full of the Holy Spirit? Then you will be full of mercy, kindness and love.

Greg Gordon

#38. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#39. When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

P.C. Cast

#40. Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica

Frank Herbert

#41. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

Brian Tracy

#42. the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.

Christopher Moore

#43. Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness.

C.B. Cook

#45. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.

John Patrick Hickey

#46. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

William Penn

#47. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#48. A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.

Timothy Pina

#49. You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Jupiter Hammon

#50. Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#51. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[*] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

Anonymous

#52. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.

Ian McEwan

#53. Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#54. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Plato

#55. Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot."
"No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness.

Annette Curtis Klause

#56. The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.

Plutarch

#57. We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves..

Rudolf Dreikurs

#58. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#59. Say a prayer and be that friend to those in despair. Love and Kindness can help keep someone going over the edge if they're standing close to it!

Timothy Pina

#60. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

Nikki Rowe

#61. To win the hearts of beautiful creatures, your stories must always be told with a joyful face, full of sweetness and love, seen at a distance with kindness.

Auliq Ice

#62. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!

Calvin Coolidge

#63. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

Anne Fortier

#64. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

Alexandre Dumas

#65. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#66. Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Paul Roberts

#67. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Pearl S. Buck

#69. Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#70. Open every door gently and with kindness even if you have the power to crash the door with only your breath!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

Phillip Moffitt

#72. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

#73. They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

Ben Hecht

#74. It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#75. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Jeremy Bentham

#76. I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

Stevie Wonder

#77. If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Let us fill our mind with kindness, heart with love, and life with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#79. The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Samuel Smiles

#80. Dream a day
bright with kindness
and a deep compassionate ray.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.

Steve Maraboli

#82. Be kind to people and don't judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

#83. Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#84. Doors of my heart are always open with love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#85. Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

#86. The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Charles Bukowski

#87. Kindness is the sign of strength and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#88. He liked a pretty face as much as the next guy, but what had always kept him coming back for more was humor, kindness, and warmth - which he hadn't yet found in one person.

Jules Barnard

#89. The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.

Steve Centola

#90. My life's message is my kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.

Agus Ekanurdi

#92. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#93. It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#94. In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

George Eliot

#95. Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Euripides

#96. What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

Deanna Raybourn

#97. We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know his will, his kindness floods me, his great love overwhelms me, and I hear him whisper, Surprise me.

Ron Hansen

#98. Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#100. Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

Nella Larsen