We restore the holiness of the world through our loving-kindness and
compassion.  Everyone participates.  It is a collective task.  Every act
of loving-kindness, no matter how great or small, repairs the world.
All those ever born have shared this collective work since
the beginning of time.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Shall we try to make a new rule of life from tonight:
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

James M. Barrie

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Mary Webb

Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Too often, people make the mistake of believing that if they only had
more money or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking body,
they would feel the sense of "wholeness" they have always craved.
Virtually without exception, this is not the case.  What is actually lacking
is the dimension of giving and kindness as a means of nourishing the soul.
To add this dimension to your life is to nourish your soul.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.

All the kindness which a person puts out into the world
works on the heart and thoughts of humankind.

Albert Schweitzer

When you receive a kindness, remember it;
when you do a kindness, forget it.

Greek proverb

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's
happiness now. How?  By giving a few words of sincere appreciation
to someone who is lonely or discouraged.  Perhaps you will forget
tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient
may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

Napoleon Hill

While great brilliance and intellect are to be admired,
they cannot dry one tear or mend a broken spirit.
Only kindness can accomplish this.

John M. Drescher

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Kind words produce their own beautiful image in one's soul.
Everyone knows the pleasure of receiving a kind look,
a warm greeting, a hand held out in time of need.
And such gestures can be made at so little expense,
yet they bring such dividends to the investor.

The War Cry

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness.  Know how
to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how
to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart,
by the happiness of those you love, the happiness
that may be wanting to yourself.

George Sand

Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behavior.  We are
nourished by expressions like “excuse me,” and other such simple
courtesies.  Our spirits are also richly fed on compliments and praise,
nourished by consideration as well as whole wheat bread.  Rudeness,
the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark
that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality,
if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Ed Hays

Albert Schweitzer

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do we spread loving kindness?  There are many who say that
this is our ultimate goal on this planet--to spread loving kindness
to our fellow human beings.  And when we are able to accomplish
this goal, we find that our lives are transformed in the process.
We're no longer so strongly focused on things and negative
thoughts and feelings, but we've become truly happy,
content human beings who love life and living.

tom walsh

the Dalai Lama

Perform a kind action, and you find a kind feeling growing in yourself,
even if it was not there before.  As you increase the number of your
kind and charitable interests, you find that the more you do for them,
the more you love them.  Serve others, not because they are your friends,
not because they are interesting, not because they are grateful. . . .
Serve them because they are the children of your Father, and therefore
are all your brethren, and you will soon find that the
fervent heart keeps time with the charitable hands.

W.B.O. Peabody

Tiruvalluvar

Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Kindheartedness is what we treasure most in family, friends,
classmates, colleagues, adversaries, and strangers.  A kind heart,
a loving heart, a soft heart would rather do anything than hurt
another's feelings. . . . A person who is kind is gentle, considerate,
and inclined to benevolent actions.  A kindhearted person is also nice.

Michael Goddart

When I interact with individuals around me in thoughtful, caring ways, my actions
become an influence for good. I know that kindness shared multiplies and
has a ripple effect as it radiates from one heart to another.

unattributed

Sue Patton Thoele

A single act of kindness may have a long trajectory and touch those we will
never meet or see.  Something that we casually offer may move through a web
of connection far beyond ourselves to have effects that we may have never imagined.
And so each of us may have left far more behind us than we may ever know.

Rachel Naomi Remen

John O'Donohue

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead.  People are apt to put it down
to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving
of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured
get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Honore De Balzac

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon