Kindness
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- To be gentle, generous, lenient, forgiving, and yet never relinquish the vital thing--this is to be great.
- To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
- To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.Liz ArmbrusterCommonly attributed
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
- To rejoice in another’s prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.
- Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
- Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.
- Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
- Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do
- True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.
- Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
- Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
- We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
- We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
- We don’t need more empathy in the world. We need more compassion. Empathy is feeling the pain and suffering of others. Compassion is acting to relieve the pain and suffering of others.
- We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.
- We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- We should be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of the best light.
- We should. do good whenever we can, and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
- 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.
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
- What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.George SaundersCommonly attributed
- When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
- When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
- When we have to reply to some one who speaks harshly to us, we must always do it with gentleness. If we are angry, it is better to keep silence.
- When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
- When you find yourself overpowered, as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.
- Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Who is honored? He who honors others
- Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?
- Wit should be used as a shield for defence rather than as a sword to wound others.
- With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
- With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind, and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
- Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
- Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
- Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
- You can accomplish by kindness what you can not by force.