Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good… — Karen Armstrong
It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see… — Barack Obama
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail. — Henry David Thoreau
Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.… — Denis Johnson
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with… — Jane Austen
Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand… — Nicholas Sparks
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the… — Jeanne DuPrau
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?… — Francesca Lia Block
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our… — Dalai Lama
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. — Ashleigh Brilliant
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great… — Anne Frank
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of… — Ellen Goodman
So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If… — Dan Millman
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete… — Chris Abani
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. — Alice Munro
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing,… — Kristin Cashore
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind… — Haruki Murakami
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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… — Ray Bradbury
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. — Mary Oliver
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all… — George Eliot
Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness. — Dara Horn

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