Quotes about Kindness

We don't practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don't seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Is there no end to his disguises, of benevolence?

In this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.