Quotes about Kindness
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
- Maya Angelou
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.
- Maya Angelou
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
- Maya Angelou
People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel
- Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: Spinning Into Butter
- Maya Angelou
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
- Maya Angelou
Love heals. Heals and liberates.
- Maya Angelou
Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.
- Maya Angelou
Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders
- Maya Angelou
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
- Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou