Quotes about Kindness

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell's despair Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." —W. Blake: Songs of Experience

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?