empathetic gestures Quotes

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.