Kindness Quotes

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Everyone responds to kindness.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.