Zitat des Tages über Freundlichkeit / Kindness:
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Kindness is wisdom.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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.
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
