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Kindness Quotes


"The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you."


"As much as I love to see the sun setting behind a city skyline,and to feel the pure majesty of a wild river or soaring mountain,and to fade, then disappear into a transcendent book, song or film,I am always most astounded, moved and transported by the warmthand kindness of a loving person. Always."


"Better things will follow you when you do good things to others."


"There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters-because it's who you are."


"The world is full of angels; if you can't find one, be one."


"Be noble like the sun, let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth."


"Take care of yourselves, take care of one another."


"I'm a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a person isn't also kind."


"If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful."


"Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass."


"In everyday life, a blessed act of saying 'hello, a smile, word of encouragement' can uplift someone spirit."


"The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness."


"Be the calm in someone else's storm."


"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."


"A woman's smile will always make a good man's day."


"Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart."


"If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment."


"An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same."


"The most mysterious attractive power is the power of your kindness."


"A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!"


"Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness."


"You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it."


"I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them."


"Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them, you just never know what the future holds."


"Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you."


"Let us be kind to make a difference in someone's life."


"Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean."


"Only kind people seem really human."


"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."


"The thing about her is, she's good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they're a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature."


"We have to figure out a kinder way to connect with each other, and practice at it every day. Make it a think we love to do. One of our favorite things, in fact. Until it becomes our only way of being."


"No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money."
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