Kindness Quotes

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

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"It is easy to be generous when one has plenty."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Kindness is often mistaken for weakness by the cruel."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The soul is healed by making others happy"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"It is the frozen glances of people that turn the heart to ice"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"I love the human in man"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Be kind and merciful and you will be happy"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"I have an immense need of kindness"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Maxim Gorky
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"Kindness is a currency that gains value the more freely it is spent."
Maxim Gorky
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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Kindness ripples through the world in ways unseen."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Kindness is the most underrated form of power."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"A single act of kindness can transform a lifetime."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"We forgive those who hurt us, but never those who pitied us."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Kindness is the rarest luxury of the powerful."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The soul needs kindness as the body needs food."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Kindness is a language understood by all creatures and all cultures."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
Anton Chekhov
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"I want to put my arms around you and tell you not to be afraid."
Anton Chekhov
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."
Anton Chekhov
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"I'd like to be remembered for my good work and kindness."
Anton Chekhov
"Kindness is a radical act."
Samuel Beckett
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"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, better than the ascendance of the desire to serve."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Kindness in this world will always triumph in the end."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"A single act of kindness reverberates through eternity."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The greatest gift is not what we give, but the love with which we give it."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The echo of a kind word lasts forever."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"In every human being there is something we can love."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The greatest gift is the gift of oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Kindness is often mistaken for weakness by those too strong to be gentle."
Mikhail Lermontov