Top 1200 Love And Kindness Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

The style of kindness has changed.

The kind need kindness most of all.

My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have to begin in the most boring of all possible ways: by defining my terms. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought it delicious, the way you bargained for me, as though I were an old rug. Then I loved the way you looked at me. Then I loved the way you ordered me about. I loved your patient and impatient ways of explaining things to me. I love the sound of your voice and the way you move. I love your courage and your kindness and your generosity and your obstinacy and your passion.” He paused. “You’re the genius. What do you think that means?

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

True kindness ennobles the giver

Kindness in words creates confidence.

One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation.

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Real kindness seeks no return.

In the end only kindness matters.

Be kinder. Kindness is underrated!

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.