Quotes about Kindness
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
— Pope John Paul II
It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.
— Heidi Baker
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
— Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
— Francis de Sales
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
— Anais Nin
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
— John Stott
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
— Dorothy Day
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
— St. Francis Of Assisi