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Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.
Sep 18, 2025
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
So shines a good deed... in a weary world.
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Spread your love everywhere you go.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.