quotations about kindness
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
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 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 like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Kindness breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
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
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
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
My true religion is kindness.
TENZIN GYATSO
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 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
No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
SAM LEVENSON
In One Era & Out the Other
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The School Journal, Jan. 1909
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
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
True kindness is a pure divine affinity,
Not founded upon human consanguinity.
It is a spirit, not a blood relation,
Superior to family and station.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Of Friendship