quotations about kindness
Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART
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We Were Liars
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Extracts from the Writings of W. M. Thackeray
Kindness is helpful to the happiness of both recipient and giver. Who does not feel happier on showing kindness to others, and who does not feel happier on receiving the manifestation of kindness? Deeds of kindness shown in the little things of life constitute man's chief happiness. Many are not able to do any great things for others, but all can find abundant opportunity of showing little deeds of kindness which will add much to the happiness of mankind.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
When one person shows kindness to another person, God shows up.
STEVE SJOGREN
The Day I Died
Kindness is not something you need to struggle to formulate. You need only let down what defenses might be in place and see what wells up from inside you.
WILL GLENNON
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
To walk in kindness is to walk in the way of Christ.
JOHN RODMAN WILLIAMS
Renewal Theology
Kindness requires maturity, imagination, determination, and certainly a big heart. It extends to the entire universe. It is a way of being at home in the universe, with the seen and the unseen, with life and death, in God's creation and in God's presence and energy, which is pure love.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Treasury of Thought
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
Live Boldly
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.
FREDERICK W. FABER
attributed, The Flight of the Swallow
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Captain and the Enemy
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Love is the light, kindness is the medium through which its rays are equably diffused.
CANON H. D. M. SPENCE
JOSEPH S. EXELL & CHARLES NEIL, Thirty Thousand Thoughts
Kindness is a graceful deed done without the other person's having to request it.
SHELDON B. STEPHENSON
Meditations on the Holy Spirit of God
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
JULIA CARNEY
Little Things
The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he's slain.
CHARLES ALEYN
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Sand and Foam