quotations about kindness
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.
SIR HUMPHRY DAVY
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Kindness is the currency of our hearts, the only currency that can never be subtracted and never be balanced in anyone's ledgers. We choose to be kind because it is the way we want to live our lives, not because we will be rewarded in some way. When we start to keep score, we become closed-hearted: I'm not doing anything nice until someone does something good for me. Our acts of kindness are whole unto themselves. They require no acknowledgment and no reward, for the act itself returns us once again to the heart of our own humanity.
WILL GLENNON
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
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
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 is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.
DAWNA MARKOVA
Random Acts of Kindness
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
Kindness breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
More than Kin
Kindness is but another name for love, and when we put love into the world we have brought heaven near by, for wherever there is kindness there is heaven.
MARTHA A. BORTLE
Onward, Aug. 18, 1906
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
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"
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be.
MARY JAKSCH
Learn to Love
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
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
SAM LEVENSON
In One Era & Out the Other
My religion is kindness.
DALAI LAMA
The Meaning of Life
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
Kindness: A language which the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought