I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
Kindness is a highly underrated quality.
Kindness in words creates confidence.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.
. . . we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
We're all saints! We all have built into us this intention, the capacities for kindness and creativity and beauty. It's a matter of perspective. As Einstein said, "The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe that the universe is friendly. " It's your choice.