Kindness Quotes - Page 9

I don’t know what I would have done if they had hugged me. I probably would have frozen in place, become stiff. It took most of my life to overcome my distaste for physical contact and not to stiffen when I was touched, or flinch, twitch, fidget, and eventually figure out how to move away. I learned to accept being hugged by my children when they were infants. Their joy at seeing me enter a room was real and filled with true love and affection and it showed in their embraces. Like a convert, when I learned the joy and comfort of being hugged by and hugging those I loved, I became a regular practitioner.

John William Tuohy

Don’t try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

Millen Livis

Right on the other side of our fears resides hope and happiness. We get stuck in our lives afraid to walk over there when it’s a much kinder place.

Ron Baratono

We have probably all seen teachers who would pick a student up by the scruff of the neck for saying ‘Shit,’ but who would walk by without a word when overhearing that same student taunting a classmate, calling him a ‘fag.’ It is often easier not to intervene — even when there is a clear-cut victim. It’s out in the hall. It isn’t our business. It isn’t our problem.But our inactions, like our actions, define who we are and what are true values are.

Richard H. Eyster

Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others.

Chris Matakas

The ability to extend kindness requires an other-awareness. We are apt to miss the needs of those around us if we remain self-focused. Helping children to see the needs of others will bless them with perspective on their own lives, as well as propel them toward good works that display the kindness of God.

Melissa B. Kruger

The world must begin sharing again. We need more kindness. -Takua Kawirembeyju, Guarani Shaman of Paraguay

Nancy Connor

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

Erika Johansen

Remember your grandpa’s saying: kill them with kindness.

C.B. Cook

Love is a battle with yourself. Be kind and love yourself before you love anyone else.

Karen Quan

Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

Anonymous

Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.

Sarah Ruhl

At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Matthew De Abaitua

Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.

Elaina Marie

We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours."Everybody had seen the Hobgoblin laugh, but nobody believed he could smile. He was so happy that you could see it all over him -- from his hat to his boots! Without a word he waved his cloak over the grass -- and behold! Once more the garden was filled with a pink light and there on the grass before them lay a twin to the King's Ruby -- the Queen's Ruby.

Tove Jansson

We must encourage, support and comfort one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.

W Somerset Maugham

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.

Venkat Desireddy

Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.

Jodi Ann Bickley

Remember the many compartments of the heart, the seed of what is possible. So much of who we are is defined by the places we hold for each other. For it is not our ingenuity that sets us apart, but our capacity for love, the possibility our way will be lit by grace. Our hearts prisms, chiseling out the colors of pure light.

Kare Anderson

Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.

Debasish Mridha

Daniel studied her face. Have you ever thanked God for giving you the advantages he has? Advantages?All those things I've already mentioned. Your tall and strong, loyal and brave, kind and loving. You stand out in a crowd and your a leader. He wouldn't trust those qualities with just anyone. He must love you a great deal.

Colleen Coble

Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure.

Patrick W. Carr

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

Suzanne Collins

As Chris Granger, executive vice president at the NBA, explains, "Talented people are attracted to those who care about them. When you help someone get promoted out of your team, it's a short-term loss, but it's a clear long-term gain. It's easier to attract people, because word gets around that your philosophy is to help people.

Adam Grant

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

Robin Caldwell

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: "When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

Louisa May Alcott

What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.

Michelle Franklin

Be kind to yourself and others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.

José N Harris

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

Liza M. Wiemer

Everyone you meet is hurt, broken and fighting a hard battle. Please don’t be an ass.

Sarvesh Jain

For some reason, Beck's unexpected kindness was hard to bear - it made tears prick my eyes where Jack's threats hadn't.

Maggie Stiefvater

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

Renata Bowers

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

Renata Bowers

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness

Lailah Gifty Akita

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

Shannon L. Alder

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.

Susie Finkbeiner

Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

Heather Wolf

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

Suzy Kassem

What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two get together into one.They don't separate.The "I" and the "you" disappear.I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..

Nikos Kazantzakis

If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

May you find help when you need it most.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We were all victims of the arbitrary nature of a totalitarian regime that constantly intruded into the most private corners of our lives and imposed its relentless fictions on us. Was this rule the rule of Islam? What memories were we creating for our children? This constant assault, this persistent lack of kindness, was what frightened me most.

Azar Nafisi

Tiny acts of kindness can have BIG results.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

Richelle E. Goodrich

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

Emily Gould

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.

Julian May

No matter who’s looking at you, love, honesty, and kindness will always make you beautiful!

Delano Johnson

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

Numinous," Ursula said, breaking the silence eventually. "There's a spark of the divine in the world -- not God, er'er done with God, but something. Is it love? Not silly romantic love, but something more profound...""I think it's perhaps something we don't have a name for," Teddy said. "We want to name everything. Perhaps that's where we've gone wrong.""'And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.' Having dominion over everything has been a terrible curse."Afterwards -- because it turned out there was an afterwards for Teddy -- he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all.

Kate Atkinson

That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.

Sanhita Baruah

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