Quotes about Kindness

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?

The end and object of a rational constitution is, to do nothing rashly, to be kindly affected towards men, and in all things willingly to submit unto the gods. Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself—of having to take something from someone else.