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Kindness

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.--Jennifer James
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.--Zoroaster
As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.--Katherine Francke
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.--Plato
Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you through Christ.--Ephesians 4:32 (God's Word Version)
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.--Albert Pike
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.--Og Mandino
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.--William Wordsworth
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.--W. Somerset Maugham
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.--Albert Schweitzer
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.--Robert Brault
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.--Henry Clay
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.--William Hazlitt
The goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because they are themselves.--Mary Lou Randour
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.--Charles Dickens
Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on!
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on!--Henry Burton
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.--Washington Irving
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.--Franklin D. Roosevelt
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.--Mother Teresa
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.--Richard Rohr (Breathing Under Water)
If something uncharitable is said in your presence, either speak in favor of the absent, or withdraw, or, if possible, stop the conversation.--St. John Vianney
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.--Mary Webb (Precious Bane)
It is raining still... Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella.--Sun-Young Park
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.--William J. Bennett
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.-- Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lots its way and come to earth.--Frederick W. Faber
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.--Mother Teresa
Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.--Lao Tzu
The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.--Mencius
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.--Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Essays)
Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love.--Lao-tzu
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear.--Christian Bovee
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.--Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.--C. Neil Strait
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.--S. H. Simmons
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.--Mark Twain
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.--Robert Ingersoll
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.--Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.--Gerard Thomas Straub (When Did I See You Hungry?)
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.--Charles M. Schwab
Let me, tonight look back across the span
Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say-
Because of some good act to beast or human-
The world is better that I lived today.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.--Orison S. Marden
Life is mostly froth and bubbles,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.--Adam Lindsay Gordon ("Ye Weary Wayfarer")
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us.--Amiel
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!--Henri F. Amiel
Little deeds of kindness,
little words of love,
make our earth an Eden,
like the heaven above.--Julia Carney
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.--William Wordsworth
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.--William Shakespeare
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.--Dalai Lama
The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. it's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.--Leo Buscaglia
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.--Isaac of Syria
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.--Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.--Aesop (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every try education should be to unlock that treasure.--Emma Goldman
One kind word can warm three snowy peaks.--Japanese proverb
Part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.--Joseph Joubert (Penseés)
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.--Benjamin Franklin
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?--Sir James Matthew Barrie (The Little White Bird)
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.--Thomas Peters & Robert Waterman, Jr.
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.--Mother Teresa
Thank you to all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be. That's what really makes the world go round.--Helen Exley
There are more people who know how to be virtuous than actually exemplify it. Kindness and compassion are not a suit of clothes to be worn only at convenient times.--Michael Rawls
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Andrew Holmes
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.--Dalai Lama
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.--Charles Kingsley
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.--Henry James
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.--Shaykh Sa'di
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.--Leo Buscaglia
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.--Edgar Cayce
Try to make at least one person happy every day. … If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.--Marcus Aurelius
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.--Mother Tesesa
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.--Joseph Addison
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.--Abraham Heschel
When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And, it'll become like a wildfire.--Whoopi Goldberg
When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, "Yes, this is how I ought to feel."--Harold Kushner
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.--Seneca
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearl slipping from a broken string.--George Prentice
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.--Ruth Smeltzer
You may be sorry that you spoke,
sorry you stayed or went,
sorry you won or lost,
sorry so much was spent.
But as you go through life, you'll find--
you're never sorry you were kind.--Herb Prochnow