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âăThe simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.ăâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âăJustice is what love looks like in public and kindness is what love looks like in privateăâ
â Cornel West
âăA gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.ăâ
â Rumi
âăTo 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 doorăâ
â John Dewey
âăFortune favors the kindăâ
â Virgil
âăBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health and kindness creates that safetyăâ
â Bessel van der Kolk
âăWhen someone really hears you without passing judgment it feels remarkably kindăâ
â Carl Rogers
âăHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears.ăâ
â Henry Burton
âăBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.ăâ
â Unknown
âăThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of othersăâ
âăWhen you have the choice between being right and being kind choose kindăâ
â Wayne Dyer
âăMindsight is the ability to look within and between people with kindness and clarityăâ
â Dan Siegel
âăThe most common form of despair is not being who you are but the cure is kindness toward yourselfăâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âăIt is not so much what happens to you as what you think about what happens to you and how you respond with kindnessăâ
â Epictetus
âăThree things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kindăâ
â Henry James
âăThe world is changed by your example not by your opinion so lead with kindnessăâ
â Paulo Coelho
âăThe deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.ăâ
â Saadi Shirazi
âăI 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.ăâ
âăBe gentle to all and stern with yourself but always lead with kindnessăâ
â Teresa of Avila
âăThe best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.ăâ
â William Wordsworth
âăLove 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 themăâ
â James Baldwin
âăThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth in kindnessăâ
â Diogenes
âăThe heart is not simply an organ it is the seat of our capacity for kindnessăâ
â Cynthia Bourgeault
âăEven a wounded world is feeding us returning kindness for every drop of care we giveăâ
â Robin Wall Kimmerer
âăThe 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 kindăâ
â Brandon Sanderson
âăIf you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindnessăâ
â Dalai Lama
âăHave a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurtsăâ
â Charles Dickens
âăThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity and kindness is the courage to be differentăâ
â Rollo May
âăI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library full of kindnessăâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âăIn an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and choosing kindnessăâ
â Pico Iyer
âăWe need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the worldăâ
â Sheryl Sandberg
âăA boss has the title a leader has the people because leaders choose kindnessăâ
â Simon Sinek
âăThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain and kindness is the gentle alternativeăâ
â Gabor Mate
âăI 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 nameăâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âăIntroverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important or people they love and want to be kind toăâ
â Susan Cain
âăHave patience all things are difficult before they become easy and kindness makes the difficulty bearableăâ
âăYou cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too lateăâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âăAll the little angels rise up high and kindness lifts them higher stillăâ
â Terry Pratchett
âăThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love, are the true measure of his character.ăâ
â Samuel Johnson
âăWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic different people different beliefs different yearnings different hopes different dreamsăâ
â Jimmy Carter
âăGuard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.ăâ
â George Sand
âăTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own controlăâ
â Martha Nussbaum
âăWe teach girls to shrink themselves but kindness teaches them to expandăâ
â Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
âăWhen 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 painăâ
â Henri Nouwen
âăKindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.ăâ
â Lao Tzu
âăNo one is born hating another person people must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to loveăâ
â Nelson Mandela
âăThe more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrateăâ
â Oprah Winfrey
âăA part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.ăâ
â Joseph Joubert
âăTo love someone is to show to them their beauty their worth and their importanceăâ
â Jean Vanier
âăIts 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 kindnessăâ
â Patrick Rothfuss
âăThose who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life and they share this gift with kindnessăâ
â Rachel Carson
âăThe essence of life is to serve others and do goodăâ
â Aristotle
âăFor the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does our best with kindnessăâ
â Viktor Frankl
âăThe human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved it simply wants to be witnessed with kindnessăâ
â Parker Palmer
âăI have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giverăâ
â Maya Angelou
âăLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence and kindness is loves daily expressionăâ
â Erich Fromm
âăThe earth which sustains humanity must not be injured it must not be destroyed with kindness we must tend ităâ
â Hildegard of Bingen
âăBe kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing aboutăâ
â Stephen Covey
âăThere 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 kindăâ
â Fred Rogers
âăA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.ăâ
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âăThe way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost and then treat it with kindnessăâ
â G.K. Chesterton
âăTo be kind is more important than to be right many times what people need is not a brilliant mind but a kind heartăâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âăHow many slams in an old screen door depends on how loud you shut it but kindness always opens gentlyăâ
â Shel Silverstein
âăHappiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul that practices kindnessăâ
â Democritus
âăThe kindest thing you can do for another person is to see them fully and completelyăâ
â Ta-Nehisi Coates
âăCritical thinking without kindness is cynicism kindness without critical thinking is naivety the combination is wisdomăâ
â Maria Popova
âăWe live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings but kindness persists beyond all systemsăâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âăThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief teaches us natural kindnessăâ
â Wendell Berry
âăOne of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attentionăâ
â Jim Rohn
âăA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just and kindness is mercy in everyday clothingăâ
â Pope Francis
âăI love deadlines I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by but I love kindness more for it never passesăâ
â Douglas Adams
âăWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.ăâ
â Seneca
âăViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent but kindness is the first resort of the wiseăâ
â Isaac Asimov
âăA warm smile is the universal language of kindness.ăâ
â William Arthur Ward
âăMy humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through kindnessăâ
â Desmond Tutu
âăConnection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our livesăâ
â Brene Brown
âăIf I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vainăâ
â Emily Dickinson
âăThe higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly but kindness is the bridge between heightsăâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âăThe supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselvesăâ
â Victor Hugo
âăRemember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness every act creates a ripple with no logical endăâ
â Scott Adams
âăAll real living is meeting and every meeting deserves kindnessăâ
â Martin Buber
âăNo one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark so greet the stranger with kindnessăâ
â Warsan Shire
âăIf you are free you need to free somebody else and kindness is the key that unlocks chainsăâ
â Toni Morrison
âăWhere love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking kindness bridges the twoăâ
â Carl Jung
âăNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced kindlyăâ
â David Attenborough
âăConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.ăâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âăOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.ăâ
â Sophocles
âăIn 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 kindnessăâ
â Jack Kornfield
âăThere must be more to life than having everything and that more is kindnessăâ
â Maurice Sendak
âăThe 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 littleăâ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt
âăThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself and then be kind to what you findăâ
â Thales
âăHave benevolence towards all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted.ăâ
â Mahavira
âăNothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindnessăâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âăIf you do not see the book you want on the shelf write it and fill it with kindnessăâ
â Beverly Cleary
âăDo your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the worldăâ
âăSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftăâ
â Mary Oliver
âăBe joyful though you have considered all the facts and spread kindness where you goăâ
âăYou give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give with kindnessăâ
â Khalil Gibran
âăA kind word and a smile can go a long way in changing someones dayăâ
â Zig Ziglar
âăThe power of imagination makes us infinite and the power of kindness makes us eternalăâ
â John Muir
âăThe world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it showing others kindnessăâ
â Rupi Kaur
âăHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the worldăâ
â Anne Frank
âăWe are all just walking each other homeăâ
â Ram Dass
âăA 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 worldăâ
â Abraham Maslow
âăWe are born to be kind it is a deep instinct wired into our nervous systemăâ
â Dacher Keltner
âăIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and its warmth was kindnessăâ
â Albert Camus
âăKindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we areăâ
â Bob Goff
âăHave you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.ăâ
âăThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds of kindness left undoneăâ
â Harriet Beecher Stowe
âăThe face of the other is what forbids me to act with unkindnessăâ
â Emmanuel Levinas
âăIn the evening of life we will be judged on love and the kindness we showedăâ
â John of the Cross
âăWorry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength so choose kindness insteadăâ
â Corrie ten Boom
âăOne person can make a difference and everyone should tryăâ
â John F. Kennedy
âăThe deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.ăâ
âăThe best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to youăâ
â Barack Obama
âăKindness is the highest form of wisdom for it requires understanding patience and loveăâ
â Zeno of Citium
âăChoose your leaders with wisdom and forethought and above all choose those who practice kindnessăâ
â Octavia Butler
âăTo 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 accountabilityăâ
â bell hooks
âăInstructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it and always be kindăâ
âăEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do so do kindness nowăâ
â Voltaire
âăCarry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for youăâ
â Princess Diana
âăSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy and kindnessăâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âăThe act of kindness is an act of self-transcendence moving beyond the prison of the selfăâ
â Irvin Yalom
âăBeginning 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.ăâ
â Og Mandino
âăStaying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience kindness and connectionăâ
âăThe test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children and the kindness it shows the vulnerableăâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âăI 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 kindnessăâ
â Diane Ackerman
âăSometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth but kindness is always useful truthăâ
â Colson Whitehead
âăThe conversational nature of reality asks for kindness as its primary languageăâ
â Krista Tippett
âăKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.ăâ
â Mark Twain
âăAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through kindnessăâ
â Julian of Norwich
âăAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundanceăâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âăDo not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plantăâ
â Robert Louis Stevenson
âăThe secret of living is givingăâ
â Tony Robbins
âăTenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutionăâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âăWhen 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 kindnessăâ
â Madeleine LEngle
âăKind words do not cost much yet they accomplish muchăâ
â Blaise Pascal
âăDo what you can with what you have where you areăâ
â Theodore Roosevelt
âăI 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 generosityăâ
â Roald Dahl
âăBe wise because the world needs more wisdom and be kind because the world needs kindness moreăâ
â Neil Gaiman
âăKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving and kindness toward yourself in solitude teaches you to be kind to othersăâ
âăThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.ăâ
â Hada Bejar
âăAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityăâ
â Simone Weil
âăEmpathy and social skills are social intelligence the interpersonal part of emotional intelligenceăâ
â Daniel Goleman
âăWhatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists so respond with kindness insteadăâ
âăKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.ăâ
âăLet children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them and always with kindnessăâ
â Judy Blume
âăThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story you never quite know where they will take you but kindness guides every penăâ
â Beatrix Potter
âăForgiveness is the key to action and freedomăâ
â Hannah Arendt
âăWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?ăâ
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âăKindness can accomplish much and the first step is always listeningăâ
â Hermann Hesse
âăKindness effects more than severityăâ
â Aesop
âăThe soul is healed by being with childrenăâ
âăKindness has the power to dismantle the single story we tell about other peopleăâ
âăBe kind whenever possible it is always possibleăâ
âăThe most powerful thing you can do for another person is to be kind when the world tells you not to beăâ
â Tara Westover
âăWe make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we giveăâ
â Winston Churchill
âăReal change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by dayăâ
â Sharon Salzberg
âăWhere words fail music speaks and where music fails kindness still communicatesăâ
â Hans Christian Andersen
âăDo your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.ăâ
âăYou cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.ăâ
âăIt is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.ăâ
âăWe can do hard things and we can do them with kindnessăâ
â Glennon Doyle
âăMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and kindness is the patience that lets it settleăâ
â Alan Watts
âăNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.ăâ
âăWhat sane person could live in this world and not be crazy with kindnessăâ
âăCompassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a relationship between equalsăâ
â Pema Chodron
âăNo act of kindness no matter how small is ever wastedăâ
âăIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough for kindness to flowăâ
â Meister Eckhart
âăHello 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 kindăâ
â Kurt Vonnegut
âăCompassion is the basis of morality and kindness is compassion in actionăâ
â Arthur Schopenhauer
âăWhen another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within them and their suffering is spilling over they need kindness not punishmentăâ
âăYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just as carefully as you select your kind actions every dayăâ
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âăKindness is ever the begetter of kindness.ăâ
âăIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourselfăâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âăThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heartăâ
â Jane Austen
âăThe soul of kindness is its willingness to flow like water adapting to every situationăâ
â Heraclitus
âăDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few kind onesăâ
â Pythagoras
âăA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's.ăâ
â Richard Whately
âăThe 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 kindlyăâ
âăCaring for myself is not self-indulgence it is self-preservation and that is an act of kindness toward the worldăâ
â Audre Lorde
âăThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated and kindness is appreciation in actionăâ
â William James
âăYou never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindnessăâ
â Harper Lee
âăKindness gives birth to kindnessăâ
âăThe world is full of wonderful things you havent seen yet keep exploring with kindnessăâ
â Eric Carle
âăSelf-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to othersăâ
â Kristin Neff
âăToo often we underestimate the power of a touch a smile a kind word a listening ear an honest complimentăâ
â Leo Buscaglia
âăHow beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.ăâ
â George Elliston
âăLife most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for othersăâ
â Martin Luther King Jr
âăIt is not so much our friends help that helps us but the confident knowledge that they will help us with kindnessăâ
â Epicurus
âăI 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.ăâ
â Stephen Grellet
â Mister Rogers
âăHatred does not cease by hatred but only by love this is the eternal ruleăâ
â Buddha
âăWe are all fragile and broken and need the kindness of others to be made wholeăâ
â David Brooks
âăAll flourishing is mutual and kindness toward the earth returns kindness to usăâ
âăVulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage truth and courage are not always comfortable but they are never weaknessăâ
âăPositive emotions like kindness broaden our awareness and build lasting personal resourcesăâ
â Barbara Fredrickson
âăLife does not make any sense without interdependence and kindness is the currency of interdependenceăâ
â Erik Erikson
âăThe 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 kindnessăâ
â N.K. Jemisin
âăThe best portion of a good mans life his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of loveăâ
âăThe only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible with kindness as your compassăâ
â Arthur C. Clarke
âăThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time and each day is an opportunity for kindnessăâ
â Becky Chambers
âăA word after a kind word is worth a thousand coinsăâ
â Margaret Atwood
âăEvery 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 futureăâ
â Deepak Chopra
âăAct 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 kindnessăâ
â Immanuel Kant
âăThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intentionăâ
â Oscar Wilde
âăThe way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount and kindness is the best delivery systemăâ
â B.F. Skinner
âăThat best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness, these are the real heroisms.ăâ
â Swami Vivekananda
âăThe 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 circumstanceăâ
âăWherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindnessăâ
âăHe who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.ăâ
â Basil of Caesarea
âăKindness is in our power even when fondness is notăâ
âăKindness to yourself is one of the greatest kindnessesăâ
â Robin Sharma
âăBe a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder help someones soul heal walk beside them and do nothing but be kindăâ
âăNot all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great loveăâ
â Mother Teresa
âăThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom and kindness expands that boundaryăâ
â Tara Brach
âăWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each otherăâ
â George Eliot
âăLet the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground with kindnessăâ
âăIf your compassion does not include yourself it is incompleteăâ
âăMy heart has become capable of every form a pasture for gazelles and a convent for monks it practices kindness in all its shapesăâ
â Ibn Arabi
âăThe time of business does not differ from the time of prayer and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen I choose kindnessăâ
â Brother Lawrence
âăBe impeccable with your word speak with integrity say only what you meanăâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âăBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thingăâ
â Naomi Shihab Nye
âăThe more I help out the more successful I become but I measure success in what it has done for the people around meăâ
â Adam Grant
âăThe real dirt is not outside but inside in our hearts we can wash away all the dirt with kindnessăâ
â Shams Tabrizi
âăKindness is the foundation of a happy and meaningful lifeăâ
â Matthieu Ricard
âăKnowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfectăâ
â Al-Ghazali
âăKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can seeăâ
âăBe like the sun for grace and mercy be like the night to cover others faults be like running water for generosity and kindnessăâ
â Jalaluddin Rumi
âăThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any but kindness is a power everyone possessesăâ
â Alice Walker
âăBetter to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.ăâ
âăAnything that is worth teaching can be presented in a way that is kind and that is worth rememberingăâ
â Howard Gardner
âăThe 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 kindnessăâ
â Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
âăCompassion is a verbăâ
âăThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heartăâ
â Helen Keller
âăOne of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others with kindnessăâ
â Lewis Carroll
âăDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.ăâ
â ThĂŠrèse of Lisieux
âăTo feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life with kindnessăâ
â Pablo Neruda
âăWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be oneăâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âăConstant kindness can accomplish much as the sun makes ice melt kindness causes misunderstanding mistrust and hostility to evaporateăâ
âăTo love is to will the good of another and kindness is love made visibleăâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âăFor it is in giving that we receive and in showing kindness that we are made wholeăâ
â Francis of Assisi
âăThe little things thats where happiness is found in the little acts of kindnessăâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âăDo not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did and kindness will followăâ
â C.S. Lewis
âăA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.ăâ
â Washington Irving
âăReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.ăâ
âăDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you and let kindness flow like waterăâ
âăCompassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practiceăâ
â Joan Halifax
âăO 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 kindnessăâ
â Rabia al-Adawiyya
âăAny fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgivingăâ
â Dale Carnegie
âăThe most important thing is to be kind to yourself first so that kindness can overflow to othersăâ
â Ocean Vuong
âăThe 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.ăâ
âăKindness in words creates confidence kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates loveăâ
âăIf you want to be happy be kind for kindness is the surest path to joyăâ
âăEven 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 skyăâ
â Hafiz
âăWhen they go low we go high with kindness and graceăâ
â Michelle Obama
âăOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there with kindnessăâ
âăKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.ăâ
âăThe longer I live the more uninhibited I become and the more I practice kindnessăâ
â Isabel Allende
âăA little consideration a little thought for others makes all the difference and that consideration is kindnessăâ
â A.A. Milne
âăIf you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.ăâ
â Mary Webb
âăThe brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones so practice kindness deliberatelyăâ
â Rick Hanson
âăRecompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.ăâ
â Confucius
âăKindness is my true religion and the practice of it is my daily prayerăâ
âăThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and sharing that self with kindnessăâ
â Joseph Campbell
âăWhen love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness but kindness always brings bothăâ
â Euripides
âăKindness is the golden chain by which society is bound togetherăâ
âăNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with kindnessăâ
âăNo medicine cures what happiness and kindness cannotăâ
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âăWe do not get to look away from what is difficult we need to look at it with kindnessăâ
â Roxane Gay
âăGentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.ăâ
â C.A. Bartol
âăUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better its not so care with kindnessăâ
â Dr Seuss
âăBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battleăâ
â Plato
âăIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeăâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âăIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.ăâ
âăThe interior landscape responds to the character of the exterior landscape with kindness matching kindnessăâ
â Barry Lopez
âăThe adventure of our time is learning that kindness is not weakness and that tenderness is the most reliable form of strengthăâ
âăSome 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 themăâ
â J.R.R. Tolkien
âăThe grittiest people are the kindest because they know what struggle feels likeăâ
â Angela Duckworth
âăThe eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time and respond with kindnessăâ
â Terry Tempest Williams
âăWhen you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.ăâ
â Harold Kushner
âăGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others including kindnessăâ
â Cicero
âăLoving-kindness is the ability to send love to ourselves and all beings without exceptionăâ
âăHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.ăâ
â Benjamin Franklin
âăWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindnessăâ
âăOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhileăâ
â Albert Einstein
âăWhen I do good I feel good when I do bad I feel bad that is my religionăâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âăThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled with kindnessăâ
â Plutarch
âăKindness is a form of hope that refuses to accept the worst in peopleăâ
â Rebecca Solnit
âăForget injuries never forget kindnessesăâ
âăPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and kindnessăâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âăWe are cups constantly and quietly being filled the trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the kindness outăâ
â Ray Bradbury
âăOur job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthyăâ
â Thomas Merton
âăLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work but kindness makes the work lighterăâ
â Horace
âăTo cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.ăâ
âăWhen we plant trees we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of kindnessăâ
â Wangari Maathai
âăIn a gentle way you can shake the world with kindnessăâ
âăHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives so spend them with kindnessăâ
â Annie Dillard
âăThere is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.ăâ
âăForget injuries, never forget kindnesses.ăâ
âăEverything belongs and everything is received through kindnessăâ
â Richard Rohr
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