George MacDonald Quotes

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.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

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.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

We are made kind by being kind.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

Be kind. It feels good.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

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.

Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

Unfortunately, you cannot let your neck be kind of cut as a gesture for your neighbor, even if it's a good neighbor.

I love everybody. When someone hurts, I hurt.

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

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.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

My parents taught me broad Christian values. To be kind to one another, to be honest, not to just think about yourself.

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