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πΈ Kindness
βTo feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life with kindnessβ
β Pablo Neruda
βDo not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plantβ
β Robert Louis Stevenson
βSome 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 themβ
β J.R.R. Tolkien
βBe a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder help someones soul heal walk beside them and do nothing but be kindβ
β Rumi
βThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness, these are the real heroisms.β
β Swami Vivekananda
βIf you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.β
β Mary Webb
βWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be oneβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βCompassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practiceβ
β Joan Halifax
βChoose your leaders with wisdom and forethought and above all choose those who practice kindnessβ
β Octavia Butler
βThe conversational nature of reality asks for kindness as its primary languageβ
β Krista Tippett
βBe joyful though you have considered all the facts and spread kindness where you goβ
β Wendell Berry
βThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief teaches us natural kindnessβ
βThe 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 kindβ
β Brandon Sanderson
βBe wise because the world needs more wisdom and be kind because the world needs kindness moreβ
β Neil Gaiman
βA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βThe deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundanceβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you and let kindness flow like waterβ
βMy heart has become capable of every form a pasture for gazelles and a convent for monks it practices kindness in all its shapesβ
β Ibn Arabi
βThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βCritical thinking without kindness is cynicism kindness without critical thinking is naivety the combination is wisdomβ
β Maria Popova
βDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few kind onesβ
β Pythagoras
βKindness is the foundation of a happy and meaningful lifeβ
β Matthieu Ricard
βCompassion is a verbβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βRemember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness every act creates a ripple with no logical endβ
β Scott Adams
βFor the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does our best with kindnessβ
β Viktor Frankl
βNo act of kindness no matter how small is ever wastedβ
β Aesop
βLife does not make any sense without interdependence and kindness is the currency of interdependenceβ
β Erik Erikson
βIf your compassion does not include yourself it is incompleteβ
β Jack Kornfield
βWe are all just walking each other homeβ
β Ram Dass
βJustice is what love looks like in public and kindness is what love looks like in privateβ
β Cornel West
βThere must be more to life than having everything and that more is kindnessβ
β Maurice Sendak
βLoving-kindness is the ability to send love to ourselves and all beings without exceptionβ
β Sharon Salzberg
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through kindnessβ
β Julian of Norwich
βOne of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others with kindnessβ
β Lewis Carroll
βThe 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 kindnessβ
β N.K. Jemisin
βThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time and each day is an opportunity for kindnessβ
β Becky Chambers
βA 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 worldβ
β Abraham Maslow
βCompassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in actionβ
β Arthur Schopenhauer
βA word after a kind word is worth a thousand coinsβ
β Margaret Atwood
βThe real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash away all the dirt with kindnessβ
β Shams Tabrizi
βThe secret of living is givingβ
β Tony Robbins
βAll the little angels rise up high and kindness lifts them higher stillβ
β Terry Pratchett
βYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give with kindnessβ
β Khalil Gibran
βWhen 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 kindnessβ
β Madeleine LEngle
βThe grittiest people are the kindest because they know what struggle feels likeβ
β Angela Duckworth
βWhen love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness but kindness always brings bothβ
β Euripides
βIf I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vainβ
β Emily Dickinson
βWe live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings but kindness persists beyond all systemsβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library full of kindnessβ
β Jorge Luis Borges
βTo 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 doorβ
β John Dewey
βPositive emotions like kindness broaden our awareness and build lasting personal resourcesβ
β Barbara Fredrickson
βOur job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthyβ
β Thomas Merton
βForget injuries never forget kindnessesβ
β Confucius
βThe 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.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βGentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.β
β C.A. Bartol
βNo medicine cures what happiness and kindness cannotβ
β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
βWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.β
β Seneca
βOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there with kindnessβ
βKindness is the highest form of wisdom for it requires understanding patience and loveβ
β Zeno of Citium
βThe best portion of a good mans life his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of loveβ
β William Wordsworth
βStaying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience kindness and connectionβ
β Brene Brown
βKind words do not cost much yet they accomplish muchβ
β Blaise Pascal
βThe deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.β
βThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself and then be kind to what you findβ
β Thales
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just as carefully as you select your kind actions every dayβ
β Elizabeth Gilbert
βThe act of kindness is an act of self-transcendence moving beyond the prison of the selfβ
β Irvin Yalom
βIf you are free you need to free somebody else and kindness is the key that unlocks chainsβ
β Toni Morrison
βMindsight is the ability to look within and between people with kindness and clarityβ
β Dan Siegel
βNothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindnessβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βEverything belongs and everything is received through kindnessβ
β Richard Rohr
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftβ
β Mary Oliver
βWhat sane person could live in this world and not be crazy with kindnessβ
βGuard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.β
β George Sand
βAll flourishing is mutual and kindness toward the earth returns kindness to usβ
β Robin Wall Kimmerer
βThe more I help out the more successful I become but I measure success in what it has done for the people around meβ
β Adam Grant
βO 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 kindnessβ
β Rabia al-Adawiyya
βReal change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by dayβ
βWhen someone really hears you without passing judgment it feels remarkably kindβ
β Carl Rogers
βThe heart is not simply an organ it is the seat of our capacity for kindnessβ
β Cynthia Bourgeault
βI 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.β
β Unknown
βWe do not get to look away from what is difficult we need to look at it with kindnessβ
β Roxane Gay
βThe power of imagination makes us infinite and the power of kindness makes us eternalβ
β John Muir
βKindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.β
β Lao Tzu
βHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.β
β Basil of Caesarea
βKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.β
β Mark Twain
βThe only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible with kindness as your compassβ
β Arthur C. Clarke
βToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest complimentβ
β Leo Buscaglia
βKindness is ever the begetter of kindness.β
β Sophocles
βWe are all fragile and broken and need the kindness of others to be made wholeβ
β David Brooks
βIt is not so much our friends help that helps us but the confident knowledge that they will help us with kindnessβ
β Epicurus
βThe 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 circumstanceβ
βNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.β
βKindness gives birth to kindnessβ
βDo your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.β
β Desmond Tutu
βWhen I do good I feel good when I do bad I feel bad that is my religionβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βFortune favors the kindβ
β Virgil
βThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated and kindness is appreciation in actionβ
β William James
βIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and its warmth was kindnessβ
β Albert Camus
βGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others including kindnessβ
β Cicero
βKindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we areβ
β Bob Goff
βWe are born to be kind it is a deep instinct wired into our nervous systemβ
β Dacher Keltner
βOne of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attentionβ
β Jim Rohn
βWhen 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 painβ
β Henri Nouwen
βIts 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 kindnessβ
β Patrick Rothfuss
βKindness in words creates confidence kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates loveβ
βUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better its not so care with kindnessβ
β Dr Seuss
βThe essence of life is to serve others and do goodβ
β Aristotle
βBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.β
βBe gentle to all and stern with yourself but always lead with kindnessβ
β Teresa of Avila
βA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just and kindness is mercy in everyday clothingβ
β Pope Francis
βNo one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark so greet the stranger with kindnessβ
β Warsan Shire
βHatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal ruleβ
β Buddha
βThe way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost and then treat it with kindnessβ
β G.K. Chesterton
βEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do so do kindness nowβ
β Voltaire
βFor it is in giving that we receive and in showing kindness that we are made wholeβ
β Francis of Assisi
βI love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by but I love kindness more for it never passesβ
β Douglas Adams
βThe world is changed by your example not by your opinion so lead with kindnessβ
β Paulo Coelho
βConstant kindness can accomplish much as the sun makes ice melt kindness causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporateβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βYou cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.β
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled with kindnessβ
β Plutarch
βKindness can accomplish much and the first step is always listeningβ
β Hermann Hesse
βSometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth but kindness is always useful truthβ
β Colson Whitehead
βAll real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindnessβ
β Martin Buber
βEven 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 skyβ
β Hafiz
βSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy and kindnessβ
βThe little things thats where happiness is found in the little acts of kindnessβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any but kindness is a power everyone possessesβ
β Alice Walker
βOne person can make a difference and everyone should tryβ
β John F. Kennedy
βNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveβ
β Mother Teresa
βHave benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted.β
β Mahavira
βKindness is a form of hope that refuses to accept the worst in peopleβ
β Rebecca Solnit
βLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expressionβ
β Erich Fromm
βThe simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.β
βThe earth which sustains humanity must not be injured it must not be destroyed with kindness we must tend itβ
β Hildegard of Bingen
βThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intentionβ
β Oscar Wilde
βA boss has the title a leader has the people because leaders choose kindnessβ
β Simon Sinek
βA gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.β
βYou cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too lateβ
βTo love someone is to show to them their beauty their worth and their importanceβ
β Jean Vanier
βA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.β
β Richard Whately
βWhen you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.β
β Harold Kushner
βThe soul of kindness is its willingness to flow like water adapting to every situationβ
β Heraclitus
βI 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 generosityβ
β Roald Dahl
βPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and kindnessβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic different people different beliefs different yearnings different hopes different dreamsβ
β Jimmy Carter
βWhen you have the choice between being right and being kind choose kindβ
β Wayne Dyer
βWhen another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within them and their suffering is spilling over they need kindness not punishmentβ
βEven a wounded world is feeding us returning kindness for every drop of care we giveβ
βThe most important thing is to be kind to yourself first so that kindness can overflow to othersβ
β Ocean Vuong
βHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears.β
β Henry Burton
βCaring for myself is not self-indulgence it is self-preservation and that is an act of kindness toward the worldβ
β Audre Lorde
βHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.β
βThere 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 kindβ
β Mister Rogers
βThe world is full of wonderful things you havent seen yet keep exploring with kindnessβ
β Eric Carle
βThe most common form of despair is not being who you are but the cure is kindness toward yourselfβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βAny fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgivingβ
β Dale Carnegie
βHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the worldβ
β Anne Frank
βKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.β
βWherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindnessβ
βThe time of business does not differ from the time of prayer and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen I choose kindnessβ
β Brother Lawrence
βBe kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing aboutβ
β Stephen Covey
βA warm smile is the universal language of kindness.β
β William Arthur Ward
βTo love is to will the good of another and kindness is love made visibleβ
β Thomas Aquinas
βDo what you can with what you have where you areβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βLife most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for othersβ
β Martin Luther King Jr
βConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.β
βHave a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurtsβ
β Charles Dickens
βLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work but kindness makes the work lighterβ
β Horace
βCarry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for youβ
β Princess Diana
βIn an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and choosing kindnessβ
β Pico Iyer
βThe human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved it simply wants to be witnessed with kindnessβ
β Parker Palmer
βTo cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.β
β Samuel Johnson
βLet children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them and always with kindnessβ
β Judy Blume
βWhen they go low we go high with kindness and graceβ
β Michelle Obama
βIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.β
βDo not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did and kindness will followβ
β C.S. Lewis
βNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with kindnessβ
β James Baldwin
βThe best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.β
βHave patience all things are difficult before they become easy and kindness makes the difficulty bearableβ
βConnection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our livesβ
βForget injuries, never forget kindnesses.β
βThree things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kindβ
β Henry James
βNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced kindlyβ
β David Attenborough
βAct 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 kindnessβ
β Immanuel Kant
βKindness effects more than severityβ
βEmpathy and social skills are social intelligence the interpersonal part of emotional intelligenceβ
β Daniel Goleman
βKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.β
βKindness has the power to dismantle the single story we tell about other peopleβ
β Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
βLove 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 themβ
βThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindnessβ
β Joseph Campbell
βCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equalsβ
β Pema Chodron
βIf you want to be happy be kind for kindness is the surest path to joyβ
βViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent but kindness is the first resort of the wiseβ
β Isaac Asimov
βThose who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life and they share this gift with kindnessβ
β Rachel Carson
βYou never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindnessβ
β Harper Lee
βWhatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists so respond with kindness insteadβ
βI 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 kindnessβ
β Diane Ackerman
βI 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 nameβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveβ
β Winston Churchill
βWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessβ
β Jean-Jacques Rousseau
βThe higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly but kindness is the bridge between heightsβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThe longer I live the more uninhibited I become and the more I practice kindnessβ
β Isabel Allende
βBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thingβ
β Naomi Shihab Nye
βWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the kindness outβ
β Ray Bradbury
βThere is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.β
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives so spend them with kindnessβ
β Annie Dillard
βA part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.β
β Joseph Joubert
βThe 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 kindnessβ
β Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
βWhere love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking kindness bridges the twoβ
β Carl Jung
βHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselvesβ
β Victor Hugo
βI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverβ
β Maya Angelou
βDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.β
β ThΓ©rΓ¨se of Lisieux
βThe face of the other is what forbids me to act with unkindnessβ
β Emmanuel Levinas
βI 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.β
β Stephen Grellet
βForgiveness is the key to action and freedomβ
β Hannah Arendt
βWe need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the worldβ
β Sheryl Sandberg
βOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhileβ
β Albert Einstein
βThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds of kindness left undoneβ
β Harriet Beecher Stowe
βTenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutionβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving and kindness toward yourself in solitude teaches you to be kind to othersβ
β bell hooks
βTo be kind is more important than to be right many times what people need is not a brilliant mind but a kind heartβ
βThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain and kindness is the gentle alternativeβ
β Gabor Mate
βThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story you never quite know where they will take you but kindness guides every penβ
β Beatrix Potter
βLet the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground with kindnessβ
βKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound togetherβ
βBe like the sun for grace and mercy be like the night to cover others faults be like running water for generosity and kindnessβ
β Jalaluddin Rumi
βIntroverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important or people they love and want to be kind toβ
β Susan Cain
βThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and kindness expands that boundaryβ
β Tara Brach
βRecompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.β
βThe most powerful thing you can do for another person is to be kind when the world tells you not to beβ
β Tara Westover
βThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heartβ
β Helen Keller
βBe impeccable with your word speak with integrity say only what you meanβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βTo 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 accountabilityβ
βBe kind whenever possible it is always possibleβ
β Dalai Lama
βIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourselfβ
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βWe teach girls to shrink themselves but kindness teaches them to expandβ
βBeginning 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.β
β Og Mandino
βThe interior landscape responds to the character of the exterior landscape with kindness matching kindnessβ
β Barry Lopez
βA kind word and a smile can go a long way in changing someones dayβ
β Zig Ziglar
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityβ
β Simone Weil
βThe best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to youβ
β Barack Obama
βA little consideration a little thought for others makes all the difference and that consideration is kindnessβ
β A.A. Milne
βReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.β
βThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth in kindnessβ
β Diogenes
βSelf-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to othersβ
β Kristin Neff
βMy humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through kindnessβ
βAnything that is worth teaching can be presented in a way that is kind and that is worth rememberingβ
β Howard Gardner
βIf you do not see the book you want on the shelf write it and fill it with kindnessβ
β Beverly Cleary
βHow beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.β
β George Elliston
βWe can do hard things and we can do them with kindnessβ
β Glennon Doyle
βVulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weaknessβ
βWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength so choose kindness insteadβ
β Corrie ten Boom
βWhere words fail music speaks and where music fails kindness still communicatesβ
β Hans Christian Andersen
βMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and kindness is the patience that lets it settleβ
β Alan Watts
βIf you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindnessβ
βThe eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time and respond with kindnessβ
β Terry Tempest Williams
βA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.β
β Washington Irving
βInstructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kindβ
βKnowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfectβ
β Al-Ghazali
βThe adventure of our time is learning that kindness is not weakness and that tenderness is the most reliable form of strengthβ
βIn 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 kindnessβ
βKindness to yourself is one of the greatest kindnessesβ
β Robin Sharma
βIt is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.β
βBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health and kindness creates that safetyβ
β Bessel van der Kolk
βThe kindest thing you can do for another person is to see them fully and completelyβ
β Ta-Nehisi Coates
βIt is not so much what happens to you as what you think about what happens to you and how you respond with kindnessβ
β Epictetus
βThe 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 kindlyβ
βIn the evening of life we will be judged on love and the kindness we showedβ
β John of the Cross
βThe more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrateβ
β Oprah Winfrey
βWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?β
βTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own controlβ
β Martha Nussbaum
βKindness is my true religion and the practice of it is my daily prayerβ
βEvery 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 futureβ
β Deepak Chopra
βThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heartβ
β Jane Austen
βWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of kindnessβ
β Wangari Maathai
βKindness is in our power even when fondness is notβ
βHello 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 kindβ
β Kurt Vonnegut
βThe way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount and kindness is the best delivery systemβ
β B.F. Skinner
βThe 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 littleβ
β Franklin D. Roosevelt
βThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love, are the true measure of his character.β
βBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleβ
β Plato
βBetter to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.β
βThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.β
β Hada Bejar
βThe world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it showing others kindnessβ
β Rupi Kaur
βWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each otherβ
β George Eliot
βThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerableβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.β
β Fred Rogers
