Quotes About Genuine Kindness

#1. By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Washington Irving

#2. Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Vernon Howard

#3. Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness.

Charles F. Glassman

#4. It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare into a mirror and smile at myself, just to remember what one looked like.

Cecil Castellucci

#5. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire

#6. Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

Martin Luther

#7. True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it's dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.

C. JoyBell C.

#8. 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

#9. How rough can you take it, Lourdes?' he asked, bringing his mouth very close to mine.
I was trying nor to pant. 'I don't know,' I replied honestly. 'Why don't you show me what you got?'
He smiled, and this time, it very nearly reached his eyes. 'You asked for it.

R.K. Lilley

#10. To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

Leta B.

#11. The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.

Jason Pollock

#12. You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

Tony Kushner

#13. The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur

#15. Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#16. I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

John Kasich

#17. Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it's a story that's completely fabricated.

Paula Stokes

#18. A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. It's like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings,

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#19. Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

Dante Alighieri

#20. Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.

Elmore Leonard

#21. Very well, Priscilla. Maggie, I hope you enjoy this exercise and take it to heart," he said with a hard voice.
I smiled a genuine smile. "I plan to. Thank you."
He bristled at my kindness and walked over to the coffee bar.
"Kill 'em with kindness, sister!" Lynne said triumphantly.

Shelly Crane

#22. It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

John Maynard Smith

#23. I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

David Rakoff

#24. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

#25. I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

Eleanor Catton

#26. I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Brian K. Vaughan

#27. Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Jules De Goncourt

#28. As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Margaret Chase Smith

#29. I want to come back as me.

Ed Koch

#30. A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

Dalai Lama

#31. Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

David J. Schwartz