Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.

My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people's lives better.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

I pride myself on being kind.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.