KINDNESS QUOTES II

quotations about kindness

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine


Kindness is the spirit in which we are to live. Our lives are never full and abundant until the spirit of kindness is our ordinary way of living.

SHELDON B. STEPHENSON

Meditations on the Holy Spirit of God


Kindness is an instinctive act, but that impulse must be nurtured, not merely by positive external feedback, but also by internal decision. Make kindness your guiding principle and you will not go wrong. Acknowledge to yourself each time you do something out of kindness and allow yourself to feel good about it so that, as you go forward, more and more of your acts will be acts rooted in kindness.

AYAMANATARA

365 Days to Enlightenment


Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise,
Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of Works"


Unfading are the gardens of kindness.

GREEK PROVERB


That song is sweetest, bravest, best,
Which plucks the thistle-barb of care
From a despondent brother's breast,
And plants a sprig of heart's-ease there.

ANDREW DOWNING

"The Sweetest Song"


Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and understand.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul


Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by.

MARK ANTHONY

The Way Through


Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

ELIHU BURRITT

The Eastern Star, Jun. 1910


Kindness is more binding than a loan.

CHINESE PROVERB


By a simple wave of the wand of that miraculous fairy, kindness, there came instantly an end to the recollection of my past humiliations and a conception of all the duties laid upon me by the dignity that belongs to a human being, and at last vouchsafed to me.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid


A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.

RUSSIAN PROVERB


No good deed goes unpunished.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes


Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

FREDERICK GREENWOOD

The New Review, Jan. 1891


Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

LEWIS B. SMEDES

Love Within Limits


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


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


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


The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble--a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions--and exalted--a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical--causing our faces to crack into a smile--and deeply touching--causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

DAWNA MARKOVA

Random Acts of Kindness