Kindness Quotes - Page 10

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.