It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.
Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.
As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.
[Parental] authority must be tempered. . . with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents. . . All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness. "
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.
His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.