quotations about kindness
It is a shallow mind that suspects or rejects an offered kindness because it is unable to discover the motive. It would have been as wise for the Egyptians to have scorned the pure waters of the Nile because they were not quite certain about the source of that mighty river.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Love is the charioteer; kindness is the vehicle which carries her swiftly on her errands of mercy.
CANON H. D. M. SPENCE
JOSEPH S. EXELL & CHARLES NEIL, Thirty Thousand Thoughts
If you want to live in a world of peace, encourage kindness, both in yourself and in those around you.
AYAMANATARA
365 Days to Enlightenment
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The School Journal, Jan. 1909
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
SAM LEVENSON
In One Era & Out the Other
More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is--our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Kindness is a bottomless fountain--not a river running outward. True kindness cannot be given away, it can only be shared; and in order to share the grace of kindness, we need to partake of it as well.
WILL GLENNON
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
C. NEIL STRAIT
attributed, Quote Unquote
My true religion is kindness.
TENZIN GYATSO
Kindness
Kindness is a clear perennial spring, rising up from a heart replete with universal philanthropy, holding on its way, unimpeded by prejudices or partialities, and distributing its benefits alike upon all that it meets with in its course.
JOHN ANGELL JAMES
The Friend, Nov. 27, 1830
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
The kindest souls are ever
Those who sin and suffer most,
And who thoughtfully endeavor
To forget whereof men boast.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"When the Gentle Christ Was Tracing"
Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be.
MARY JAKSCH
Learn to Love
Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road.
JAMES L. GORDON
The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917