#kindness

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#empathy #kindness #suffering #understanding-others #suffering

Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#eyes #forget #hurts #kindness #love

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kindness #misunderstanding #desire

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#kindness #offensive #politeness #tact #fun

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#kindness #cruelty

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#equality #helping #here #honesty #i

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#compassion #contribute #definitely #destroying #energy

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#barbarism #every #everyone #first #first step

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#giving #kindness #smile #family

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#appreciated #day #end #end of the day #guess