Kindness Quotes
2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors
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She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is…
— Henry Rollins
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We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she…
— Peter Lerangis
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.…
— Dan Barker
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There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper,…
— Jane Austen
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only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because…
— Amy Carmichael
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in…
— Louisa May Alcott
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She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had…
— Dean Koontz
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.…
— Haruki Murakami
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened,…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
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That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people…
— David Foster Wallace
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You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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My religion is kindness.
— Dalai Lama
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Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small…
— M. Russell Ballard
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People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
— Neil Gaiman
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
— Sharon Salzberg
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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for…
— Benjamin Carson
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Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and…
— Zig Ziglar
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I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the…
— Rachel Cohn
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Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.
— Karen White
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