Kindness Quotes - Page 38

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.