4,590 Quotes About Kindness

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Being nice is often about avoiding conflict, letting inappropriate actions slide, or bottling up words and actions that ought to be spoken and enacted to prevent creating an uncomfortable scene. At its worst, being nice reinforces actions and attitudes that strip away human dignity.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to avoid, but a means to a deeper, stronger, and kinder world.

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.