Quotes about Kindness

Our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.