Kindness Quotes
The Dalai Lama and Ali, the fourth caliph, are at the top, with Shakespeare, Alice Bailey and Amit Ray. The sourced lines are not especially sweet. Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), thought it immoral to use private property to relieve the evils that private property causes, and Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming (1832), says never to apologize for showing feeling, since you are apologizing for truth.
The passage that begins “I expect to pass through this world but once” is credited to Stephen Grellet and marked disputed. The notes show that it was first printed in a June 1869 magazine, writing of an unnamed Quaker. Two jokes are flagged as well: the best government being a benevolent tyranny tempered by assassination (Voltaire) and a kind word with a gun going farther than a kind word alone (Al Capone).
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
Charity, it has been said, is the pardoning of the unpardonable and the loving of the unlovable.
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
What kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?
So I learned that people may be kind enough while not caring a rather.
As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.