Quotes about Kindness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Christopher Hitchens

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?