Kindness Quotes And Sayings

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“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”
– Henry James

“Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”
– Honore De Balzac

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
– J. M. Barrie

“Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.”
– James L. Gordon

“Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.”
– James L. Gordon

“Kindness is the touch of an angel’s hand.”
– James L. Gordon

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”
– James M. Barrie

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ”
– James Matthew Barrie

“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

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
– Jane Nelson

“We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.”
– Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire

“Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.”
– Jean Maalouf

“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

“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

“Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.”
– Jean Maalouf

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“One good turn asketh another.”
– John Heywood

“Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.”
– Joseph Addison

“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

“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.”
– Julia Carney

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”
– Lao-Tse

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao-Tse

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.”
– Lewis B. Smedes

“No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.”
– Lewis F. Korns

“Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness.”
– Lewis F. Korns

“We seem to feel keenest the kindness that comes from one who is generally cruel.”
– Lewis F. Korns

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