Love and Kindness Quotes

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. - Goethe

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. - Romans 12:20

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make Earth happy. - Julia Carney

Make yourself a blessing to someone. You kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge. - Carmelia Elliot

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth

Every human feels pleasure in doing good to another. - Thomas Jefferson

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better. - Laura Huxley

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. - Charles Perkhurst

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. - Javan

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them when we feel it, but when they do. - Nan Fairbother

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. - Melodie Beattie

I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Helen Keller

You will find as well as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. 0 Henry Drummond

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love. - Charlie Brown

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous, or conceited, or proud; love is not ill-mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up: its faith, hope, and patience never fails. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In everything there is the desire for love. - D.H. Lawrence

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson