With Kindness Quotes

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not. ~ Martin Pistorius

No, Nick. The world has always been scary. You've just been lucky enough to be shielded from it. It's the saddest part of childhood, really. When that shimmery veil is ripped away by something horrible and you're left with the unvarnished truth. When the world no longer becomes safe and you see the ugly side of it. You, like most humans, fear us demons. But we're not the worst predators out there. You know what we are. It's the ones who lure you in with kindness or who attack from the back. Those are monsters far worse than us. All this time, you thought you know. We all do. But now you have seen." – Caleb ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity. ~ Ernesto Sabato

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet. ~ Ben Carson

Every evening the girls of the house gathered about me on the mats, and after chasing away Kory-Kory from my side - who nevertheless, retired only to a little distance and watched their proceedings with the most jealous attention - would anoint my whole body with a fragrant oil, squeezed from a yellow root, previously pounded between a couple of stones, and which in their language is denominated 'aka'. And most refreshing and agreeable are the juices of the 'aka', when applied to ones, limbs by the soft palms of sweet nymphs, whose bright eyes are beaming upon you with kindness; and I used to hail with delight the daily recurrence of this luxurious operation, in which I forgot all my troubles, and buried for the time every feeling of sorrow. Sometimes ~ Herman Melville

every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you - to fathers with daughters ~ Rupi Kaur

He thinks I will hit him. Strike him, with a large stick. Foolish mule. Oh no, I am much more cunning. I will surprise him with kindness ... until he grows calm and dispenses with all watchfulness, and then ... ha! I shall punch him in the nose! Won't he be surprised! No mule can match wits with me. Oh yes, many have tried, and almost all have failed! ~ Steven Erikson

Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you will ever have because you are the only person with whom you will spend every moment of your life. Treat yourself with kindness, courtesy, and respect. Cherish who you are! ~ Karlyle Tomms

Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again. ~ Debasish Mridha

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win. ~ Rita Zahara

He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to convert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.


IN THE HANDS OF MAN by Suzy Kassem ~ Suzy Kassem

Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness. ~ Amy Engel

To acknowledge the existence of the bully and his accompanying risks is not the same as accepting him as a permanent feature of our world. I know that if we accept trauma and fear, it wins.

"Bullies don't just go away. Their legacies don't just disappear. The bully must be confronted intentionally, his impact named and addressed. Even so, it seems there's no clear consensus on how to deal with the bully on our blocks. Do we confront him? Match violence with violence? Do we ignore him, or try to kill him with kindness? I don't think there's a silver bullet to handling the bully, no one-size-fits-all strategy. But the right strategy has to be rooted in a context bigger than the immediate one, has to be rooted in more than aiming to end the presence of the bully himself. We must focus on the type of world we want to live in and devise a plan for getting there, as opposed to devising a strategy centered on opposition. ~ DeRay Mckesson

You should never sit around waiting for life to start because it's leaving you with every second."
"You should explore the world," I said, tears springing to my eyes for no rational reason. "Do dangerous thing. Ignore the fuck out of conventional wisdom. Walk on fire. Treat everyone with kindness because people are the only things worth holding on to. Live without regrets because there is no time for that shit. Never forget the way home, and leave a trail of breadcrumbs if you have to. Love, and get your heart broken, and say fuck it, and love again and then again. ~ Kate Canterbary

All your body requires of you is that you turn toward it with kindness and compassion, with nonjudgment and plain-vanilla acceptance of all your contradictory emotions, beliefs, and longings. ~ Emily Nagoski

Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness,
there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness. ~ Debasish Mridha

We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness. ~ Seneca.

She was kind to dogs, faithful to friends, generosity itself to a dozen starving poets, had a passion for poetry. But love, as the male novelists defined it, had nothing whatever to do with kindness, fidelity, generosity, or poetry. Love is slipping off one's petticoat and
But we all know what love is. ~ Virginia Woolf

Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge. ~ Debasish Mridha

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness. ~ Katy Perry

Treat people with kindness. ~ Harry Styles

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao. ~ Laozi

I could win you a goldfish."
"I don't think that's be fair to the goldfish," Gemma said. "I've had about a dozen of them, and they all seem to die within days of me getting them."
"Oh, yeah." Alex smiled crookedly. "I remember you making your dad bury them out in the backyard."
"They were my pets, and they deserved a proper burial."
"I better be careful around you." Alex stepped back from her cautiously, giving her a wide berth. "You're a goldfish mass murderer. I don't know what you're capable of."
"Stop!" Gemma laughed. "I didn't kill them on purpose! I was little. I think I overfed them. Out of love, though."
"That's even scarier," he teased. "Do you plan to kill me with kindness?"
"Maybe." She narrowed her eyes at him and tried to look menacing, making him laugh. ~ Amanda Hocking

More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine? ~ Jean Maalouf

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves. ~ Jane Austen

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love. ~ Laozi

She was so beautiful with kindness. ~ Atticus Poetry

Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. ~ Mary Shelley

By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness. ~ Debasish Mridha

With kindness you always win. ~ Debasish Mridha

Kindness is always more powerful than rightness, because rightness is only right but kindness is always right but with kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Looks like I'm going to have to kill him with kindness. That's the way Gran always taught me to treat people who were mean to me. ~ Michelle A. Valentine

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy. ~ Lemon Andersen

Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit. ~ Robert J. Furey

Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned. It is the ability to take some risks with our awareness-to look at ourselves and others with kindness instead of reflexive criticism; to include in our concern those to whom we normally pay no attention; to care for ourselves unconditionally instead of thinking, "I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake." It is the ability to gather our attention and really listen to others, even those we've written off as not worth our time. It is the ability to see the humanity in people we don't know and the pain in people we find difficult. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Recipe For Happiness:~Ingredients :2 heaping cups of Patience, 1 heart full of Love ,2 hands full of Generosity, 1 head full of Understanding~~and a large dash of Laughter..Directions~~Sprinkle generously with Kindness,~~add plenty of Faith and mix well.~Spread over a period of a lifetime~and serve to everyone you meet with ~~Love. ~ Unknown

How dare he treat me with kindness when I'm trying to destroy him? ~ Juliann Whicker

At Auschwitz, everything was either ass-backward or a corruption of itself. The Ten Commandments were turned on their head-- thou shalt kill, thou shalt steal, thou shalt covet-- the Golden Rule nonexistent. Here, the weak were at the mercy of the strong-- the lame, sick, and feeble treated not with kindness but contempt. Here, nothing was less valuable than the life of a human being; a crust of bread, a pack of cigarettes, a needle and thread were worth more. Women with children and the elderly were the first to die, not the last. Here, people went to the hospital to be killed, not cured. ~ J. Michael Dolan

Be awesome! With kindness, serve the suffering humanity. ~ Debasish Mridha

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness. ~ Curt Mega

You don't have to be rich to leave a positive legacy; you don't have to be intelligent, famous, powerful or even particularly well organised, let alone happy. You need only to treat people with kindness, compassion and respect, knowing they will have been enriched by their encounters with you. ~ Hugh Mackay

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. ~ John James Audubon

To help the humanity, live with kindness and harmony. ~ Debasish Mridha

TO BE TREATED WITH KINDNESS AND COMPASSION, ALWAYS TREAT OTHERS IN THE SAME WAY, INCLUDING YOUR PARTNER. ~ Linda Alfiori

The best way to love your children is to love their mother [father]. That's true. The quality of your marriage greatly affects the way you relate to your children - and the way they receive love. If your marriage is healthy - both partners treating each other with kindness, respect, and integrity - you and your spouse will feel and act as partners in parenting. ~ Gary Chapman

The strongest among us are the patient; who when faced with ridicule, respond with kindness. ~ K.A. Hosein

There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the evidence, we certainly do not hate successful and vital city areas. On the contrary, so many people want to make use of such places, so many people want to work in them or live in them or visit in them, that municipal self-destruction ensues. In killing successful diversity combinations with money, we are employing perhaps our nearest equivalent to killing with kindness. ~ Jane Jacobs

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace. ~ Dalai Lama XIV

No, they're not starbusts." He continued to touch each mark. "They're angel kisses. It's like angels kissed your hands all over." His eyes rose to meet hers. They were filled with kindness and compassion. Something she had felt little of the past year. (Peter) ~ Angie Stanton

Kill them with kindness. ~ Mariana Zapata

Positively you overwhelm me!' my lord said. 'You oppress me with kindness, sir ~ Georgette Heyer

We need the bible if we are to be competent Christians. The Bible will build us up so that we can endure suffering. It will give us discernment for difficult choices. It will make us strong enough to be patient with others and patient enough to respond with kindness when others hurt us. The Bible will get us up to bring meals to new moms and pray for people on their hospital beds. The bible equips us to be truth lovers and truth tellers. It sens us out to care for the poor and welcome the stranger. There is no limit on what the Bible can do for us, to us and through us. ~ Kevin DeYoung

I sat there in the darkness, with their skin clsoe to me, and I felt lifted up and wrapped with kindness. And very small, because I didn't deserve this, but small the way a mouse in its den is small: warm and safe and protected. ~ Emily Horner

If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty. ~ Paul Hoffman

Love me deeply, speak to me with kindness, bless me with your presence, have patience with my darkness. ~ Maria Defillo

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within. ~ Dan Millman

Parallel to tenderness and cruelty, the cataracts of pleasure and pain are interrelated. Painful and pleasurable sensations instruct us of our physical boundaries. The collective scorecard of physical pain and pleasurable sensations define the evolving self. Our internal clockworks comprised of remembrances of times past, both painful and pleasurable, provide each of us with a telling emotional autobiography. What we primarily recall – pain or pleasure – is revelatory. How we act with kindness and tenderheartedly, or hardheartedly and cruelly is equally telling. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Happiness will come
Today, tomorrow and every year
Now, then and every moment
For if, we learn to love, care and share.
Happiness will come
To fill our heart with kindness
It is a gift from the universe
To touch our life with joyful silence.
Happiness will come
For if we know, wealth and splendors are illusion
But attainment of certain mental state,
And Unconditional love is a real possession. ~ Debasish Mridha

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads ~ John Of Kronstadt

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. ~ Abu Bakr

Let us emulate nature, let us bloom like a flower to fill the world with kindness, tolerance, tranquility, beauty and love. ~ Debasish Mridha

The great thing about you is that you're still here. You made it through many stormy seas and you're still ready to get back in the boat. You're still brave enough to hope. You're still courageous enough to love. You still give of yourself with the same warmth you did before others tried to extinguish your flame. You're still filled with kindness even though the world hasn't given you much to be kind about. You're still open to great adventures and deep emotions. You're still here. You're still living. You're still you. How great it is that you're still you. ~ Emily Maroutian

Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness. ~ Par Lagerkvist

Open every door gently and with kindness even if you have the power to crash the door with only your breath! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness. ~ Zoroaster

Look with kindness and you will always find wonder. ~ R.J. Palacio

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power. ~ Sharon Salzberg

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. ~ Plautus

She told me to picture little Georgia, at five years old or so (when this behavior was learned), and imagine calling her a "stupid fucking idiot" for making a mistake. It made me want to cry. Five-year-old Georgia doesn't deserve that; she deserves understanding and patience and to know that mistakes can be made without them making her a broken person. And so when I berated myself for that wrong turn, I was perpetuating the narrative that Georgia doesn't deserve to be treated with kindness. Even though I didn't start it, the only person who could stop that cycle was myself, and a great way to do that was to picture myself as a little kid when I was being cruel to myself. It's taken some time, but I've definitely been kinder to myself since I learned that. ~ Georgia Hardstark

Treating others with kindness is the first magical act the magician learns and the last one he masters. ~ Virgil*

Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness? ~ Debasish Mridha

Dream a day
bright with kindness
and a deep compassionate ray. ~ Debasish Mridha

Even when we are confused about someone's gender, and don't have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty. ~ C.N. Lester

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. ~ Steve Almond

Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness. ~ C.B. Cook

You were thinking you had a chance to do what you always do," said James with kindness I didn't deserve. "You were going to give yourself up in order to save the people you love. It's a bit of a problem with you, you know. ~ Aimee Carter

Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

I still believe in dreams. I still think that if we work together, things will turn out all right. I still feel that if we each treat each other with kindness, dignity, and respect, we will live happily ever after. I have hope. ~ Michael Hingson

To my children, I will say, 'Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone. ~ Nikita Gill

Live with kindness,
care with love,
love with compassion. ~ Debasish Mridha

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls ~ Dean Koontz

My mom liked to say that Elsie was part of our family. My parents treated her better than other families who expected their housekeepers to eat separately. Mom bought Elsie birthday and Christmas presents, sent her home with vegetables from our garden, and, most important, treated her with kindness and respect. My grandmother prepared her lunch, instead of the other way around. Yet I didn't realize that Elsie's own family had been ripped apart two decades earlier, when she was working for my grandparents, and that my grandfather was partly to blame. ~ Kristen Green

Wash your life with forgiveness and fill it with kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron

A person can be so beautiful when the heart is filled with love and the voice shivers with kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness. ~ Carmen Ejogo

Love yourself to fill your heart with kindness.
Then love others to fill the world with happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

We are responsible for this humanity, we should share it with kindness and generosity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Someone asked me the other day - 'could you tell me, what is right human living' - I put my hand on his shoulder and asked him to sit beside me, with a gentle smile on my face, then uttered softly, 'I don't know your religious belief or disbelief, I don't know your professional background, I don't know your economic or social status, all I need to know is that you are a human being, a reflection of my own self, so I treat you with kindness and acceptance, same as I treat myself'. The world is flooded with judgments and opinions - for once my friend, take a step beyond that flood, and you shall see a beautiful world, where being human is a beautiful thing - in that world being human is all that matters. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

How to care for intimate apparel? Treat your bras like you'd want a partner to handle your breasts: with kindness and a gentle touch. ~ Elisabeth Dale

How do you surrender when every cell of your being is screaming that your life is not working and that you need to do something to make it work? How do you surrender in that moment when jealousies, envy, doubt, rage, resentment all rise up inside you? You accept that you are resisting letting go; you accept that perhaps you are not yet ready to take your hands off the steering wheel; you accept this with kindness to who you are in the moment, being gentle and tender instead of beating yourself over the head with the 'Must hurry up, time is of the essence, everyone is passing me by' train of thought. ~ Kelly Martin

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowhere - like Hadrian, like Augustus. The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Don't just act with kindness, think with kindness. ~ Elaina Marie

No one wants to learn their history," Jorgen said firmly. "Not all of it. We want our parents to provide but don't want to know what they had to sacrifice to do it. No nation was ever built with kindness. ~ Victor LaValle

He who has let go of hatred
who treats all beings with kindness
and compassion, who is always serene,
unmoved by pain or pleasure,
free of the "I" and "mine,"
self-controlled, firm and patient,
his whole mind focused on me
that is the man I love best. ~ Anonymous

None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful ... it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury ... we repay your hatred with kindness. ~ Cyprian