Kind Quotes - Page 7

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

You can never go wrong with kindness.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.

I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m kind of a slob.

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.