Kindness Quotes

Small acts. Big impact. These quotes make the case for compassion as a way of life.

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"Kindness is the language that transcends all barriers."
Boris Pasternak
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"Kindness is the unexpected gift that transforms both giver and receiver."
Boris Pasternak
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"There is nothing more insulting than the feeling of not being taken seriously."
Nikolai Gogol
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"A kind word is like a spring day."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Nikolai Gogol
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"If you want to be happy, make others happy."
Maxim Gorky
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"The greatest gift we can offer another is our presence in their suffering."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The world does not reward kindness, but the kind must be kind anyway."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The greatest gift is to understand without being told."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Even the smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Compassion is the highest form of human achievement."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Kindness returns to the giver."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Kindness costs nothing but buys everything."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Kindness begets kindness."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"One should not speak of rope in the house of a hanged man."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Kindness costs nothing yet yields everything."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Kindness is the only currency that never devalues."
Boris Pasternak
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"The greatest act of kindness is taking another's pain seriously."
Boris Pasternak
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"To understand everything is to forgive everything."
Maxim Gorky
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"A single act of kindness ripples across generations."
Maxim Gorky
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"The measure of a person is how they treat those who can offer them nothing."
Maxim Gorky
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"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A man of honor would show his kindness without hesitation."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Kindness is the most underestimated power."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"I cannot understand how anyone can live without pity."
Anton Chekhov
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"A word spoken carelessly can wound deeper than any blade."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"A single act of genuine kindness reverberates longer than years of indifference."
Mikhail Lermontov