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).
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
The announcement of the Gospel always goes together with charity and human promotion.
The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
True Faith which leads to charity leads on to that which unites wills and affections, not opinions.
The worst of men is he who stops his contributions to charity, eats by himself, and whips his slave.
The charity of the Gospel must extend to all religions and the French hospitality to all people.
There is no kindness at courts, only greed and lies and pain.
As the Persians say, kindness to the lion is cruelty to the lamb.