quotations about kindness
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
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and understand.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul
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
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
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Sep. 12, 1711
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
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
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
Kindness breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
Kindness is the very essence of the Eternal, the root of all existence, the primal font of all blessedness in all worlds.
DAVID THOMAS
The Homilist, 1867
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
My true religion is kindness.
TENZIN GYATSO
Kindness
I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
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
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen--all heart to feel--all eye to examine and to weep--all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.
JOHN ANGELL JAMES
The Friend, Nov. 27, 1830