Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 16

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do – not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
Rowan D. Williams

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me.
Philip Francis

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
The Bible

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no one is useless while they have a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have.
Ursula Le Guin

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb

It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret…..It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan Kundera

The way you see people is the way you treat them.
Zig Ziglar

It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.
Anonymous

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Friends . . . They are kind to each other’s hopes. They cherish each other’s dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
Plautus

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

The person who doesn’t fit in with our notions of who is worthy of our love — the bag lady at the corner, the strange old man who rides through town on a three-wheel bike all strung up with flags — is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns, insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches no only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.
Daphne Rose Kingma

Though he was rough, he was kindly.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
Bodie Thoene

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