Quotes about Kindness

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love

Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

For boundless compassion for all living beings is the firmest and most certain guarantee of moral good conduct and requires no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will certainly injure no one, infringe on no one, do no one harm, rather, forbear everyone, forgive everyone, help everyone as much as he can, and all his actions will carry the imprint of justice and loving kindness.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.