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

   

Let us be kinder to one another.

Aldous Huxley’s last words

  

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

  

Kind words are the music of the world.  They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were
some angel’s song which had lost its way and come on earth.  It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone
can do—soften the hard and angry hearts of people.  No one was ever corrected by a sarcasm—crushed, perhaps, if the sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God, never.

Frederick William Faber

  

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

Mary Webb

  
  
Neither genius, fame, nor love shows
the greatness of the soul.
Only kindness can do that.

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

  

A part of kindness consists in loving people
more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

  
Mother Teresa

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

   

  
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-tzu
  

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

I wonder why it is that we are not all
kinder to each other. . . . How much
the world needs it!  How easily it is done!

Henry Drummond

  
  

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

  
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;
until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.

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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Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on.

Henry Burton
  

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

  
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

A. Neilen
  

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

  

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!

George Elliston

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

  

   
In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

George Ade
   

Kindness may be achieved by all, rich
and poor, learned and illiterate. 
Brilliance of mind and capacity
for deep thinking have rendered
great service to humanity, but
by themselves they are impotent
to dry a tear or mend a broken heart.

unknown

  

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

  

   
Constant kindness can accomplish much.  As the sun makes
ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

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

   
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care
and kindness of our parents.  And then later on in our life,
when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are
again dependent on the kindness of others.  And since at
the beginning and end of our lives, we are so dependent
on others' kindness, how can it be in the middle
that we neglect kindness towards others?

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

   
They whose minds are filled with kindness
will never enter a world dark with woe.

Tiruvalluvar

   

  
Be kind:  Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

John Watson

Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.

from the Qur'an

My religion is very simple--my religion is kindness.

the Dalai Lama

   

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

    
What if we--just you and me--made a commitment to mindfully
integrate kindness into each and every day of our lives?  We
would start a kindness revolution.  Let's do it.  Let's become
the proverbial pebbles in the pond and send out ripples of
kindness into the world each day.  Those whose hearts are touched
by our kindness will, hopefully, be encouraged to pass it on,
and a revolution of much-needed kindness will have begun.

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

    

  

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