Kindness Quotes - Page 18

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

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 is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

To belittle, you have to be little.

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Life is mostly froth and bubble

[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.