Kindness Quotes
2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— P. C. Cast
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When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
— Dave Barry
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If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure…
— John O'Donohue
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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
— Leo Buscaglia
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What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
— Dodie Smith
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no…
— T.C. Boyle
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for…
— Alan Paton
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel…
— Hugh Laurie
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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
— Confucius
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What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand…
— Carl Jung
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Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen…
— James M. Barrie
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Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
— James Thurber
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there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human…
— Orson Scott Card
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Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side…
— John O'Donohue
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The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I…
— Anne Rice
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