#kindness

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #character #courage #else #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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#attachment #control #except #freedom #gains

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#consists #deserve #kindness #loving #more

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#decency #economy #kindness #much #need

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#back #everyday #greed #headlines #kindness

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#activities #begun #being #cannot #collective

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#human #human being #kindness #opportunity #wherever

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope