397 quotes found
“To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.”
“I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.”
“Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?”
“...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.”
“We often look for kindness back in the same place we gave it, and mostly that is where we go wrong. Kindness does not work that way, you put your kind deeds into the universe and the universe refle...”
“Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who saves up money for a prom dress, but at the last minute she says, "It's only clothes...”
“The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other people’s vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that...”
“I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.”
“What gives a person’s brief time on this planet meaning is engaging in small acts of kindness. Bestowing an act of kindness upon other people is the greatest gift that a person will ever give to ot...”
“You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, theref...”
“He trusted that I would have a very pleasant stay: it was so peaceful, and the meals were delicious. As he said it, I realized that he was expressing not just a belief, but a hope, because he was o...”
“Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse”
“What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
“We should be carefulOf each other, we should be kindWhile there is still time”
“The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I foundA hedgehog jammed up against the blades,Killed. It had been in the long grass.I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.Now I had mauled its unobtrusive...”
“You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.”
“When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.”
“What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.”
“Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.”
“A Princess has beautiful manners no matter who she’s dealing with. She would never stoop to being brusque when giving a burger order, or shouting at the barista who forgot her syrup shot. When we b...”
