4,590 Quotes About Kindness

A field is empty, but if you put in the effort to grow something then you will have a garden. And that’s life. Give something, something will come back. Give nothing, nothing will come back. To grow a flower is a miracle: it means you can grow more. Remember that a flower is not just a flower, it is the start of a whole garden.

Kindness is the greatest wealth of all. Small acts of kindness last longer than a lifetime. This lesson, that kindness and generosity and faith in your fellow man are more important than money, is the first and greatest lesson my father ever taught me. And in this way he will always be with us, and always live forever.

Love is a decision more than it is a feeling.

What is hate? Like when you don’t like someone?

When there are more people who hate than people who love, then there are wars, which make hate grow until it destroys everything.

You can’t learn to swim unless you’re willing to risk drowning. Keeping your distance from the water might keep you safe for a while, but it also keeps you far way from the things that are really worth it.

A family was much more than a group of people united by blood. More than anything, it was the thin thread that kept the present linked to the past. Memories and memory itself kept both worlds together.

True peace was a sleeping child’s face.

Jacob longed to grow up, to become an adult, yet he was still drawn to so much from childhood, and he did not want to give up his playing.