401 quotes
“It is not so much our friends help that helps us but the confident knowledge that they will help us with kindness”
— Epicurus
“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you”
— Princess Diana
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete”
— Jack Kornfield
“There 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 kind”
— Mister Rogers
“Compassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in action”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
— Plato
“The grittiest people are the kindest because they know what struggle feels like”
— Angela Duckworth
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them and always with kindness”
— Judy Blume
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“To be kind is more important than to be right many times what people need is not a brilliant mind but a kind heart”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to you”
— Barack Obama
“How many slams in an old screen door depends on how loud you shut it but kindness always opens gently”
— Shel Silverstein
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
— Lao Tzu
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I 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 name”
“It is not so much what happens to you as what you think about what happens to you and how you respond with kindness”
— Epictetus
“Kindness is the foundation of a happy and meaningful life”
— Matthieu Ricard
“We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the world”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Kindness is the highest form of wisdom for it requires understanding patience and love”
— Zeno of Citium
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy and kindness”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The 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 kind”
— Brandon Sanderson
“This is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonder”
— Dalai Lama
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“Kindness is a form of hope that refuses to accept the worst in people”
— Rebecca Solnit
“Be kind whenever possible it is always possible”
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story you never quite know where they will take you but kindness guides every pen”
— Beatrix Potter
“Kindness is my true religion and the practice of it is my daily prayer”
“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindness”
“Do what you can with what you have where you are”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are but the cure is kindness toward yourself”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“We do not get to look away from what is difficult we need to look at it with kindness”
— Roxane Gay
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now.”
— William Penn
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain
“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
“Kindness to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses”
— Robin Sharma
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Unknown
“For it is in giving that we receive and in showing kindness that we are made whole”
— Francis of Assisi
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking kindness bridges the two”
— Carl Jung
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
— Thérèse of Lisieux
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy be like the night to cover others faults be like running water for generosity and kindness”
— Jalaluddin Rumi
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path.”
— Nichiren
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other”
— George Eliot
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”
“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.”
— Sophocles
“I have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giver”
— Maya Angelou
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Connection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
— Brene Brown
“Have patience all things are difficult before they become easy and kindness makes the difficulty bearable”
— Saadi Shirazi
“All flourishing is mutual and kindness toward the earth returns kindness to us”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Kindness effects more than severity”
— Aesop
“The adventure of our time is learning that kindness is not weakness and that tenderness is the most reliable form of strength”
— Krista Tippett
“Act 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 kindness”
— Immanuel Kant
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did and kindness will follow”
— C.S. Lewis
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equals”
— Pema Chodron
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears.”
— Henry Burton
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds of kindness left undone”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it showing others kindness”
— Rupi Kaur
“Justice is what love looks like in public and kindness is what love looks like in private”
— Cornel West
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better its not so care with kindness”
— Dr Seuss
“I 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 generosity”
— Roald Dahl
“The 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 circumstance”
— Viktor Frankl
“The face of the other is what forbids me to act with unkindness”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
— Hada Bejar
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do so do kindness now”
— Voltaire
“Have benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted.”
— Mahavira
“The power of imagination makes us infinite and the power of kindness makes us eternal”
— John Muir
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and kindness”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest compliment”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible to practice compassion in every moment”
“Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not”
— Samuel Johnson
“Loving-kindness is the ability to send love to ourselves and all beings without exception”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“The best portion of a good life is the little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love done in quiet”
— William Wordsworth
“If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain”
— Emily Dickinson
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself and then be kind to what you find”
— Thales
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention”
— Jim Rohn
“A little consideration a little thought for others makes all the difference and that consideration is kindness”
— A.A. Milne
“The deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves and kindness begins with awareness”
“Kindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we are”
— Bob Goff
“Every 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 future”
— Deepak Chopra
“You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late”
“Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts”
— Charles Dickens
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart”
— Helen Keller
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just and kindness is mercy in everyday clothing”
— Pope Francis
“A word after a kind word is worth a thousand coins”
— Margaret Atwood
“Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal rule”
— Buddha
“Hello 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 kind”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindness”
— Harper Lee
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer”
“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness but kindness always brings both”
— Euripides
“I 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.”
— Stephen Grellet
“The human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved it simply wants to be witnessed with kindness”
— Parker Palmer
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with kindness”
— James Baldwin
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough for kindness to flow”
— Meister Eckhart
“Beginning today treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.”
— Og Mandino
“Kindness can accomplish much and the first step is always listening”
— Hermann Hesse
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
“The heart is not simply an organ it is the seat of our capacity for kindness”
— Cynthia Bourgeault
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and its warmth was kindness”
— Albert Camus
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible”
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
“Some 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 them”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health and kindness creates that safety”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle that you cannot see”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there with kindness”
— Rumi
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“No one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced kindly”
— David Attenborough
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
— Ambrose of Milan
“The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured it must not be destroyed with kindness we must tend it”
— Hildegard of Bingen
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just as carefully as you select your kind actions every day”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
— Seneca
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
— Confucius
“Mindsight is the ability to look within and between people with kindness and clarity”
— Dan Siegel
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
“The best portion of a good mans life his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love”
“Compassion is a verb”
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives so spend them with kindness”
— Annie Dillard
“To 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 door”
— John Dewey
“Love 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 them”
“When someone really hears you without passing judgment it feels remarkably kind”
— Carl Rogers
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves”
— Victor Hugo
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.”
“Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much”
— Blaise Pascal
“Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important or people they love and want to be kind to”
— Susan Cain
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost and then treat it with kindness”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones so practice kindness deliberately”
— Rick Hanson
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly but kindness is the bridge between heights”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any but kindness is a power everyone possesses”
— Alice Walker
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life with kindness”
— Pablo Neruda
“A kind word and a smile can go a long way in changing someones day”
— Zig Ziglar
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Real change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by day”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground with kindness”
“The 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 kindness”
— N.K. Jemisin
“All real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindness”
— Martin Buber
“In a gentle way you can shake the world with kindness”
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“Be impeccable with your word speak with integrity say only what you mean”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“Kindness gives birth to kindness”
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library full of kindness”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“My heart has become capable of every form a pasture for gazelles and a convent for monks it practices kindness in all its shapes”
— Ibn Arabi
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“The 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 kindness”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“The essence of life is to serve others and do good”
— Aristotle
“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.”
— The Talmud
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
— Richard Brooks
“Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us and regarding what we see with an open kind and loving heart is what I call radical acceptance”
— Tara Brach
“The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount and kindness is the best delivery system”
— B.F. Skinner
— Saint Basil
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you and let kindness flow like water”
— Wendell Berry
“The soul of kindness is its willingness to flow like water adapting to every situation”
— Heraclitus
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled with kindness”
— Plutarch
“One person can make a difference and everyone should try”
— John F. Kennedy
“My religion is very simple. My religion is peace and kindness.”
— Tenzin Gyatso
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”
— Albert Einstein
“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”
“Its 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 kindness”
— Patrick Rothfuss
“Even a wounded world is feeding us returning kindness for every drop of care we give”
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“We are born to be kind it is a deep instinct wired into our nervous system”
— Dacher Keltner
“I 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 kindness”
— Diane Ackerman
“In an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and choosing kindness”
— Pico Iyer
“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior.”
“The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.”
— Parley P. Pratt
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few kind ones”
— Pythagoras
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love, are the true measure of his character.”
“When 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 pain”
— Henri Nouwen
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Kindness has the power to dismantle the single story we tell about other people”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.”
“Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love”
— Mother Teresa
“If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.”
— Mary Webb
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent but kindness is the first resort of the wise”
— Isaac Asimov
“The deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control”
— Martha Nussbaum
“Better to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness and compassion”
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy with kindness”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“When they go low we go high with kindness and grace”
— Michelle Obama
“The best portion of a good life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.”
— C.A. Bartol
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
— Conan O'Brien
“To love is to will the good of another and kindness is love made visible”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Whether one believes in a religion or not there is not anyone who does not appreciate kindness and compassion”
“The world is full of wonderful things you havent seen yet keep exploring with kindness”
— Eric Carle
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does our best with kindness”
“In 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 kindness”
“The longer I live the more uninhibited I become and the more I practice kindness”
— Isabel Allende
“Fortune favors the kind”
— Virgil
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity and kindness is the courage to be different”
— Rollo May
“O 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 kindness”
— Rabia al-Adawiyya
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth but kindness is always useful truth”
— Colson Whitehead
“The little things thats where happiness is found in the little acts of kindness”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth in kindness”
— Diogenes
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts and spread kindness where you go”
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain and kindness is the gentle alternative”
— Gabor Mate
“When we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of kindness”
— Wangari Maathai
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“The conversational nature of reality asks for kindness as its primary language”
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
— George Sand
“There must be more to life than having everything and that more is kindness”
— Maurice Sendak
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time and respond with kindness”
— Terry Tempest Williams
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practice”
— Joan Halifax
“The secret of living is giving”
— Tony Robbins
“The real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash away all the dirt with kindness”
— Shams Tabrizi
“No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted”
“The 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 little”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.”
— Pema Chödrön
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible with kindness as your compass”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“Forget injuries never forget kindnesses”
“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”
— George Elliston
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
— Simone Weil
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness, these are the real heroisms.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through kindness”
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things”
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic different people different beliefs different yearnings different hopes different dreams”
— Jimmy Carter
“I love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by but I love kindness more for it never passes”
— Douglas Adams
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expression”
— Erich Fromm
“When you have the choice between being right and being kind choose kind”
— Wayne Dyer
“Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and kindness expands that boundary”
“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”
“Life most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“We can do hard things and we can do them with kindness”
— Glennon Doyle
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
— Washington Irving
“Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder help someones soul heal walk beside them and do nothing but be kind”
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving and kindness toward yourself in solitude teaches you to be kind to others”
— bell hooks
“To love someone is to show to them their beauty their worth and their importance”
— Jean Vanier
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark so greet the stranger with kindness”
— Warsan Shire
“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself but always lead with kindness”
— Teresa of Avila
— Fred Rogers
“No medicine cures what happiness and kindness cannot”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself”
“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.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“The act of kindness is an act of self-transcendence moving beyond the prison of the self”
— Irvin Yalom
“Any fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving”
— Dale Carnegie
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
— Mary Oliver
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weakness”
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life and they share this gift with kindness”
— Rachel Carson
“Be wise because the world needs more wisdom and be kind because the world needs kindness more”
— Neil Gaiman
“Nothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and kindness is the patience that lets it settle”
— Alan Watts
“Critical thinking without kindness is cynicism kindness without critical thinking is naivety the combination is wisdom”
— Maria Popova
“If you want to be happy be kind for kindness is the surest path to joy”
“The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The most important thing is to be kind to yourself first so that kindness can overflow to others”
— Ocean Vuong
“The 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.”
“Everything belongs and everything is received through kindness”
— Richard Rohr
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work but kindness makes the work lighter”
— Horace
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings but kindness persists beyond all systems”
“Remember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness every act creates a ripple with no logical end”
— Scott Adams
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless”
“Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about”
— Stephen Covey
— Basil of Caesarea
“Every act of kindness is a piece of love we leave behind.”
“The 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 kindly”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others”
— Kristin Neff
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
— Anne Frank
“There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies my brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness”
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
“When 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 kindness”
— Madeleine LEngle
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience kindness and connection”
“When another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within them and their suffering is spilling over they need kindness not punishment”
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— James Boswell
“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.”
“Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings”
“No one is born hating another person people must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love”
— Nelson Mandela
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls.”
“Knowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfect”
— Al-Ghazali
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.”
“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.”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence it is self-preservation and that is an act of kindness toward the world”
— Audre Lorde
“If you are free you need to free somebody else and kindness is the key that unlocks chains”
— Toni Morrison
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see extending compassion to all”
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
— Gladys Bertha Stern
“Be kind for every family member you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.”
“Be kind for everyone you meet within your family is fighting a hard battle.”
— Socrates
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion so lead with kindness”
— Paulo Coelho
“Where words fail music speaks and where music fails kindness still communicates”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“A 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 world”
— Abraham Maslow
“The soul is healed by being with children”
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness”
“In the evening of life we will be judged on love and the kindness we showed”
— John of the Cross
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength so choose kindness instead”
— Corrie ten Boom
“Even 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 sky”
— Hafiz
“We are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the kindness out”
— Ray Bradbury
“All the little angels rise up high and kindness lifts them higher still”
— Terry Pratchett
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerable”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old I admire kind people within my family.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“If you do not see the book you want on the shelf write it and fill it with kindness”
— Beverly Cleary
“Positive emotions like kindness broaden our awareness and build lasting personal resources”
— Barbara Fredrickson
“Empathy and social skills are social intelligence the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence”
— Daniel Goleman
“The time of business does not differ from the time of prayer and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen I choose kindness”
— Brother Lawrence
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others with kindness”
— Lewis Carroll
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
— Philo of Alexandria
“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief teaches us natural kindness”
“Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kind”
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought and above all choose those who practice kindness”
— Octavia Butler
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindness”
— Joseph Campbell
“The interior landscape responds to the character of the exterior landscape with kindness matching kindness”
— Barry Lopez
“The most powerful thing you can do for another person is to be kind when the world tells you not to be”
— Tara Westover
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated and kindness is appreciation in action”
— William James
“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.”
— Richard Whately
“We are all fragile and broken and need the kindness of others to be made whole”
— David Brooks
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through kindness”
— Julian of Norwich
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The kindest thing you can do for another person is to see them fully and completely”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in a way that is kind and that is worth remembering”
— Howard Gardner
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others including kindness”
— Cicero
“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give with kindness”
— Khalil Gibran
“To 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 accountability”
“The more I help out the more successful I become but I measure success in what it has done for the people around me”
— Adam Grant
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time and each day is an opportunity for kindness”
— Becky Chambers
“Kindness in words creates confidence kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates love”
“When I do good I feel good when I do bad I feel bad that is my religion”
— Abraham Lincoln
“We teach girls to shrink themselves but kindness teaches them to expand”
“A boss has the title a leader has the people because leaders choose kindness”
— Simon Sinek
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”
— Oscar Wilde
“I 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.”
“Whatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists so respond with kindness instead”
“Life does not make any sense without interdependence and kindness is the currency of interdependence”
— Erik Erikson
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom”
— Hannah Arendt
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“Constant kindness can accomplish much as the sun makes ice melt kindness causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporate”
“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.”
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy”
— Thomas Merton
“That best portion of a good familys life consists of little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion”
— Thomas Paine
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow and extend compassion”
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul that practices kindness”
— Democritus
“In any moment we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and that softening is healing”
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
— Jane Austen
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“An animal looks at you with the eyes of compassion reminding you that all creatures deserve kindness”
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