Kindness Quotes - Page 14

Everyone responds to kindness.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.