Kindness Quotes - Page 65

A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.

Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.