Quotes about Kindness

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

We are here for the sake of others

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.