“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”— Emma Thompson, amazon.com
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”— R.J. Palacio, amazon.com
“I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“You could never recognize the kindness in that girl, the depth of her needs, how desperately she wanted to belong.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“I was in love with everything—I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”— Egon Schiele, amazon.com
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”— Christian Nestell Bovee, amazon.com
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”— Joseph Joubert, goodreads.com