Kindness

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

The Brothers Karamazov, Book II, Chapter IV, “A Lady of Little Faith”.

English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.

Father Zossima counsels Madame Hohlakov.