Roald Dahl Quotes

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Some public officials are blessed - you can't acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

I am more interested in teaching my children empathy than subscribing to our 'me' culture and obsessing about 'how do I feel' all the time.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

In the end only kindness matters.

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Be kinder than necessary.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.