Quotes about Kindness

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.

If God's peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not by our own will or virtue, but by the Holy Spirit working through us. We cannot give what we do not have, but if the spirit blows through the dark clouds, and enters our hearts, we can be used as vehicles of peace, and our own peace will be thereby deepened. The more peace we give away, the more we have.

Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.

Oh, Meg, you are a moron, Calvin said. Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?

That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.

I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them.