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âThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled with kindnessâ
â Plutarch
âIf you want to be happy be kind for kindness is the surest path to joyâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âNo one is born hating another person people must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to loveâ
â Nelson Mandela
âCompassion is a verbâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âTenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutionâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic different people different beliefs different yearnings different hopes different dreamsâ
â Jimmy Carter
âHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.â
â Benjamin Franklin
âCarry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for youâ
â Princess Diana
âBe gentle to all and stern with yourself but always lead with kindnessâ
â Teresa of Avila
âThe lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.â
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âThe world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it showing others kindnessâ
â Rupi Kaur
âA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.â
â Richard Whately
âThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story you never quite know where they will take you but kindness guides every penâ
â Beatrix Potter
âConnection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our livesâ
â Brene Brown
âWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength so choose kindness insteadâ
â Corrie ten Boom
âEven a wounded world is feeding us returning kindness for every drop of care we giveâ
â Robin Wall Kimmerer
âEvery time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the futureâ
â Deepak Chopra
âPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and kindnessâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just and kindness is mercy in everyday clothingâ
â Pope Francis
âNothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindnessâ
âThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth in kindnessâ
â Diogenes
âThe brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones so practice kindness deliberatelyâ
â Rick Hanson
âOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhileâ
â Albert Einstein
âIf you are free you need to free somebody else and kindness is the key that unlocks chainsâ
â Toni Morrison
âWhatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists so respond with kindness insteadâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âFortune favors the kindâ
â Virgil
âBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thingâ
â Naomi Shihab Nye
âA word after a kind word is worth a thousand coinsâ
â Margaret Atwood
âYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just as carefully as you select your kind actions every dayâ
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âJustice is what love looks like in public and kindness is what love looks like in privateâ
â Cornel West
âTo be kind is more important than to be right many times what people need is not a brilliant mind but a kind heartâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âA gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.â
â Rumi
âThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity and kindness is the courage to be differentâ
â Rollo May
âThe most common form of despair is not being who you are but the cure is kindness toward yourselfâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âConstant kindness can accomplish much as the sun makes ice melt kindness causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporateâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me look what happens with a love and kindness like that it lights the whole skyâ
â Hafiz
âThe deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.â
â Saadi Shirazi
âWhen we were children we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable but to grow up is to accept vulnerability and choose kindnessâ
â Madeleine LEngle
âI slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joy and kindness was its nameâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love, are the true measure of his character.â
â Samuel Johnson
âForget injuries never forget kindnessesâ
â Confucius
âOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there with kindnessâ
âThe best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.â
â William Wordsworth
âThe earth which sustains humanity must not be injured it must not be destroyed with kindness we must tend itâ
â Hildegard of Bingen
âThe time of business does not differ from the time of prayer and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen I choose kindnessâ
â Brother Lawrence
âLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work but kindness makes the work lighterâ
â Horace
âWe are born to be kind it is a deep instinct wired into our nervous systemâ
â Dacher Keltner
âYou cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too lateâ
âWhere words fail music speaks and where music fails kindness still communicatesâ
â Hans Christian Andersen
âDo not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plantâ
â Robert Louis Stevenson
âA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.â
â Washington Irving
âThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heartâ
â Jane Austen
âWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessâ
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âOne of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attentionâ
â Jim Rohn
âBetter to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.â
â Unknown
âCritical thinking without kindness is cynicism kindness without critical thinking is naivety the combination is wisdomâ
â Maria Popova
âHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the worldâ
â Anne Frank
âThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too littleâ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt
âIt is not so much our friends help that helps us but the confident knowledge that they will help us with kindnessâ
â Epicurus
âHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives so spend them with kindnessâ
â Annie Dillard
âChoose your leaders with wisdom and forethought and above all choose those who practice kindnessâ
â Octavia Butler
âYou never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindnessâ
â Harper Lee
âHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.â
â Basil of Caesarea
âKindness is a form of hope that refuses to accept the worst in peopleâ
â Rebecca Solnit
âIt is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.â
âEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do so do kindness nowâ
â Voltaire
âAll the little angels rise up high and kindness lifts them higher stillâ
â Terry Pratchett
âInstructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kindâ
â Mary Oliver
âThe secret of living is givingâ
â Tony Robbins
âWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the kindness outâ
â Ray Bradbury
âAll flourishing is mutual and kindness toward the earth returns kindness to usâ
âThose who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life and they share this gift with kindnessâ
â Rachel Carson
âKindness to yourself is one of the greatest kindnessesâ
â Robin Sharma
âAct only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law and let that law be kindnessâ
â Immanuel Kant
âThe world is changed by your example not by your opinion so lead with kindnessâ
â Paulo Coelho
âVulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weaknessâ
âSelf-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to othersâ
â Kristin Neff
âThere is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.â
âThere are three ways to ultimate success the first way is to be kind the second way is to be kind the third way is to be kindâ
â Mister Rogers
âOur job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthyâ
â Thomas Merton
âThe way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount and kindness is the best delivery systemâ
â B.F. Skinner
âWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be oneâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound togetherâ
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âLove takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within and kindness is the gentle hand that removes themâ
â James Baldwin
âYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give with kindnessâ
â Khalil Gibran
âDo what you can with what you have where you areâ
â Theodore Roosevelt
âDo your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.â
â Desmond Tutu
âAnything that is worth teaching can be presented in a way that is kind and that is worth rememberingâ
â Howard Gardner
âDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.â
â ThÊrèse of Lisieux
âWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each otherâ
â George Eliot
âNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveâ
â Mother Teresa
âThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat suffering struggle loss and have found their way out of the depths through kindnessâ
â Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
âYou cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.â
âThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and kindness expands that boundaryâ
â Tara Brach
âWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.â
â Seneca
âThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain and kindness is the gentle alternativeâ
â Gabor Mate
âUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better its not so care with kindnessâ
â Dr Seuss
âKindness has the power to dismantle the single story we tell about other peopleâ
â Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
âA part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.â
â Joseph Joubert
âCaring for myself is not self-indulgence it is self-preservation and that is an act of kindness toward the worldâ
â Audre Lorde
âTo love is to will the good of another and kindness is love made visibleâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âA musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves and kind to the worldâ
â Abraham Maslow
âThe adventure of our time is learning that kindness is not weakness and that tenderness is the most reliable form of strengthâ
â Krista Tippett
âThe soul of kindness is its willingness to flow like water adapting to every situationâ
â Heraclitus
âThe heart is not simply an organ it is the seat of our capacity for kindnessâ
â Cynthia Bourgeault
âKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving and kindness toward yourself in solitude teaches you to be kind to othersâ
â bell hooks
âO God if I worship you from fear of punishment burn me in hell if I worship you in hope of paradise exclude me from it but if I worship you for your own sake then do not withhold from me your eternal kindnessâ
â Rabia al-Adawiyya
âIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and its warmth was kindnessâ
â Albert Camus
âThe real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash away all the dirt with kindnessâ
â Shams Tabrizi
âA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.â
âBeginning 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.â
â Og Mandino
âTo find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness and kindness opens that doorâ
â John Dewey
âThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.â
â Hada Bejar
âI have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; but I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind.â
âWe are all fragile and broken and need the kindness of others to be made wholeâ
â David Brooks
âHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.â
â Henry Burton
âThe soul is healed by being with childrenâ
âWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person means the most to us we often find it is those who instead of giving advice have chosen rather to share our painâ
â Henri Nouwen
âKindness is my true religion and the practice of it is my daily prayerâ
â Dalai Lama
âThe one thing you cannot take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me the last of ones freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstanceâ
â Viktor Frankl
âBe kind whenever possible it is always possibleâ
âIf you do not see the book you want on the shelf write it and fill it with kindnessâ
â Beverly Cleary
âOne person can make a difference and everyone should tryâ
â John F. Kennedy
âIt is not so much what happens to you as what you think about what happens to you and how you respond with kindnessâ
â Epictetus
âThe face of the other is what forbids me to act with unkindnessâ
â Emmanuel Levinas
âWhen I do good I feel good when I do bad I feel bad that is my religionâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWhen love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness but kindness always brings bothâ
â Euripides
âA boss has the title a leader has the people because leaders choose kindnessâ
â Simon Sinek
âNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.â
â Aesop
âThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any but kindness is a power everyone possessesâ
â Alice Walker
âMy heart has become capable of every form a pasture for gazelles and a convent for monks it practices kindness in all its shapesâ
â Ibn Arabi
âWe teach girls to shrink themselves but kindness teaches them to expandâ
âKindness can accomplish much and the first step is always listeningâ
â Hermann Hesse
âEverything belongs and everything is received through kindnessâ
â Richard Rohr
âThe act of kindness is an act of self-transcendence moving beyond the prison of the selfâ
â Irvin Yalom
âBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleâ
â Plato
âKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.â
â Blaise Pascal
âOne of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others with kindnessâ
â Lewis Carroll
âWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?â
âThe best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to youâ
â Barack Obama
âKindness effects more than severityâ
âWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of kindnessâ
â Wangari Maathai
âKindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we areâ
â Bob Goff
âKindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.â
â Lao Tzu
âThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief teaches us natural kindnessâ
â Wendell Berry
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âTo begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountabilityâ
âIntroverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important or people they love and want to be kind toâ
â Susan Cain
âConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.â
âRemember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness every act creates a ripple with no logical endâ
â Scott Adams
âThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerableâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âNo medicine cures what happiness and kindness cannotâ
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equalsâ
â Pema Chodron
âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityâ
â Simone Weil
âHave patience all things are difficult before they become easy and kindness makes the difficulty bearableâ
âEmpathy and social skills are social intelligence the interpersonal part of emotional intelligenceâ
â Daniel Goleman
âBe kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing aboutâ
â Stephen Covey
âThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.â
â Mark Twain
âI think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being I will put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosityâ
â Roald Dahl
âSome believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check but that is not what I have found I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay and kindness is chief among themâ
â J.R.R. Tolkien
âMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and kindness is the patience that lets it settleâ
â Alan Watts
âForget injuries, never forget kindnesses.â
âWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveâ
â Winston Churchill
âThe ones who look at the world and say this is how its going to be are the ones who build the future with kindness or without it so choose kindnessâ
â N.K. Jemisin
âIn the evening of life we will be judged on love and the kindness we showedâ
â John of the Cross
âLet the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground with kindnessâ
âKindness is ever the begetter of kindness.â
â Sophocles
âThe more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrateâ
â Oprah Winfrey
âReal change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by dayâ
â Sharon Salzberg
âTo cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.â
âHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears.â
âMindsight is the ability to look within and between people with kindness and clarityâ
â Dan Siegel
âNo act of kindness no matter how small is ever wastedâ
âMy humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through kindnessâ
âHow many slams in an old screen door depends on how loud you shut it but kindness always opens gentlyâ
â Shel Silverstein
âHave benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted.â
â Mahavira
âCompassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in actionâ
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âWhat sane person could live in this world and not be crazy with kindnessâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âWherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindnessâ
âThe power of imagination makes us infinite and the power of kindness makes us eternalâ
â John Muir
âThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselvesâ
â Victor Hugo
âDo your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the worldâ
âKindness in words creates confidence kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates loveâ
âLet children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them and always with kindnessâ
â Judy Blume
âAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through kindnessâ
â Julian of Norwich
âIf you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.â
â Mary Webb
âIn the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go and all require kindnessâ
â Jack Kornfield
âI do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it I want to have lived the width of it as well through kindnessâ
â Diane Ackerman
âKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.â
âWe do not get to look away from what is difficult we need to look at it with kindnessâ
â Roxane Gay
âThe grittiest people are the kindest because they know what struggle feels likeâ
â Angela Duckworth
âThe little things thats where happiness is found in the little acts of kindnessâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âPositive emotions like kindness broaden our awareness and build lasting personal resourcesâ
â Barbara Fredrickson
âHow beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.â
â George Elliston
âBe joyful though you have considered all the facts and spread kindness where you goâ
âA warm smile is the universal language of kindness.â
â William Arthur Ward
âBe a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder help someones soul heal walk beside them and do nothing but be kindâ
âWhen you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.â
â Harold Kushner
âThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness, these are the real heroisms.â
â Swami Vivekananda
âIf you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindnessâ
âBe impeccable with your word speak with integrity say only what you meanâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundanceâ
âWe are all just walking each other homeâ
â Ram Dass
âViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent but kindness is the first resort of the wiseâ
â Isaac Asimov
â Fred Rogers
âThe most powerful thing you can do for another person is to be kind when the world tells you not to beâ
â Tara Westover
âWhere love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking kindness bridges the twoâ
â Carl Jung
âKindness gives birth to kindnessâ
âThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated and kindness is appreciation in actionâ
â William James
âThe human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved it simply wants to be witnessed with kindnessâ
â Parker Palmer
âWe live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings but kindness persists beyond all systemsâ
âThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time and each day is an opportunity for kindnessâ
â Becky Chambers
âIn a gentle way you can shake the world with kindnessâ
âThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intentionâ
â Oscar Wilde
âI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverâ
â Maya Angelou
âTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own controlâ
â Martha Nussbaum
âThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindnessâ
â Joseph Campbell
âA kind word and a smile can go a long way in changing someones dayâ
â Zig Ziglar
âThe most important thing is to be kind to yourself first so that kindness can overflow to othersâ
â Ocean Vuong
âLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expressionâ
â Erich Fromm
âThe simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.â
âWe can do hard things and we can do them with kindnessâ
â Glennon Doyle
âThe only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible with kindness as your compassâ
â Arthur C. Clarke
âSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy and kindnessâ
âIts like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head always all the time that story makes you what you are so make your story one of kindnessâ
â Patrick Rothfuss
âWhen they go low we go high with kindness and graceâ
â Michelle Obama
âKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can seeâ
âHello babies welcome to earth its hot in the summer and cold in the winter its round and wet and crowded at the outside babies you have got to be kindâ
â Kurt Vonnegut
âGuard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.â
â George Sand
âI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library full of kindnessâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âThe way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost and then treat it with kindnessâ
â G.K. Chesterton
âNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced kindlyâ
â David Attenborough
âThe deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.â
âThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself and then be kind to what you findâ
â Thales
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftâ
âA little consideration a little thought for others makes all the difference and that consideration is kindnessâ
â A.A. Milne
âAll real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindnessâ
â Martin Buber
âDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few kind onesâ
â Pythagoras
âHappiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul that practices kindnessâ
â Democritus
âKind words do not cost much yet they accomplish muchâ
âAny fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgivingâ
â Dale Carnegie
âI love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by but I love kindness more for it never passesâ
â Douglas Adams
âThree things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kindâ
â Henry James
âForgiveness is the key to action and freedomâ
â Hannah Arendt
âIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourselfâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âIf I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vainâ
â Emily Dickinson
âStaying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience kindness and connectionâ
âWhen someone really hears you without passing judgment it feels remarkably kindâ
â Carl Rogers
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough for kindness to flowâ
â Meister Eckhart
âBe like the sun for grace and mercy be like the night to cover others faults be like running water for generosity and kindnessâ
â Jalaluddin Rumi
âNo one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark so greet the stranger with kindnessâ
â Warsan Shire
âThe higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly but kindness is the bridge between heightsâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.â
âHatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal ruleâ
â Buddha
âToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest complimentâ
â Leo Buscaglia
âGentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.â
â C.A. Bartol
âReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.â
âIn an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and choosing kindnessâ
â Pico Iyer
âHave a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurtsâ
â Charles Dickens
âThe eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time and respond with kindnessâ
â Terry Tempest Williams
âRecompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.â
âLife most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for othersâ
â Martin Luther King Jr
âThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds of kindness left undoneâ
â Harriet Beecher Stowe
âIf your compassion does not include yourself it is incompleteâ
âThe essence of life is to serve others and do goodâ
â Aristotle
âOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.â
âThe more I help out the more successful I become but I measure success in what it has done for the people around meâ
â Adam Grant
âBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health and kindness creates that safetyâ
â Bessel van der Kolk
âDo not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did and kindness will followâ
â C.S. Lewis
âSometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth but kindness is always useful truthâ
â Colson Whitehead
âKindness is the highest form of wisdom for it requires understanding patience and loveâ
â Zeno of Citium
âWe need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the worldâ
â Sheryl Sandberg
âI expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.â
â Stephen Grellet
âThe kindest thing you can do for another person is to see them fully and completelyâ
â Ta-Nehisi Coates
âKindness is the foundation of a happy and meaningful lifeâ
â Matthieu Ricard
âThere must be more to life than having everything and that more is kindnessâ
â Maurice Sendak
âBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.â
âThe longer I live the more uninhibited I become and the more I practice kindnessâ
â Isabel Allende
âThe purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think about and the best question is how can I be more kindâ
â Brandon Sanderson
âFor the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does our best with kindnessâ
âLoving-kindness is the ability to send love to ourselves and all beings without exceptionâ
âTo love someone is to show to them their beauty their worth and their importanceâ
â Jean Vanier
âTo feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life with kindnessâ
â Pablo Neruda
âKnowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfectâ
â Al-Ghazali
âThe best portion of a good mans life his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of loveâ
âNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with kindnessâ
âKindness is in our power even when fondness is notâ
âThe interior landscape responds to the character of the exterior landscape with kindness matching kindnessâ
â Barry Lopez
âBe wise because the world needs more wisdom and be kind because the world needs kindness moreâ
â Neil Gaiman
âLife does not make any sense without interdependence and kindness is the currency of interdependenceâ
â Erik Erikson
âWhen another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within them and their suffering is spilling over they need kindness not punishmentâ
âCompassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practiceâ
â Joan Halifax
âDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you and let kindness flow like waterâ
âThe world is full of wonderful things you havent seen yet keep exploring with kindnessâ
â Eric Carle
âThe conversational nature of reality asks for kindness as its primary languageâ
âThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and kindlyâ
âFor it is in giving that we receive and in showing kindness that we are made wholeâ
â Francis of Assisi
âGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others including kindnessâ
â Cicero
âThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heartâ
â Helen Keller
âWhen you have the choice between being right and being kind choose kindâ
â Wayne Dyer
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