Kindness Quotes

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Lao-Tze

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.

Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love .... kindness is goodwill, kindness says "I want you to be happy." Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.
Randolph Ray

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro

T\'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

The best portion of a good man\'s life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Getting money is not all a man\'s business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things: in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Sir Humphry Davy

Little kindnesses ... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.
Zadi

Few acts of kindness do as much to make the world a better place as when we choose to consciously bear our own meanness.

We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Beloved-of-the-Gods speaks thus: Father and mother should be respected and so should elders, kindness to living beings should be made strong and the truth should be spoken. In these ways, the Dhamma should be promoted. Likewise, a teacher should be honored by his pupil and proper manners should be shown towards relations. This is an ancient rule that conduces to long life. Thus should one act.

There must be justice, not charity. Kindness is solitary. Compassion becomes one with him whom we pity; it allows us to fathom him, to understand him alone amongst the rest; but it blurs and befogs the laws of the whole. I must set off with a clear idea, like the beam of a lighthouse through the deformities and temptations of night.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

If you find yourself to be a sort of an abrasive type of person, perhaps you might try to be gentle, because the truth is that gentleness and kindness are a lot more powerful than we are led to believe. And if you are like this, and people are telling you it doesn't work, don't listen to them do what you know is right.







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