quotations about kindness
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
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 breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
My true religion is kindness.
TENZIN GYATSO
Kindness
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
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
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 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
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The School Journal, Jan. 1909
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
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
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 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
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
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 very essence of the Eternal, the root of all existence, the primal font of all blessedness in all worlds.
DAVID THOMAS
The Homilist, 1867
Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road.
JAMES L. GORDON
The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917