If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.
Bill Maher
Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Ettiene De Grellet
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James
Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Willa Sibert Cather
Kindness is always fashionable.
Amelia E. Barr
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Jodie Foster
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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
Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.
Clifford Stoll
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Anita Roddick
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Persian Proverb
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
An incredible wealth of human kindness.
Charles Kuralt
A revolution in kindness.
Anita Roddick
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene
The employees on the plane helped entertain the children because obviously we all couldn't sit together and there was such kindness in their faces it gave me hope.
Rose Lokoju
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
Bo Bennett
We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.
Donald Kennedy
To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
Betty Williams
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Her kindness and compassion for her friends touched many soldiers throughout the company.
David Woods
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Elbert Hubbard
The kindness we've seen here -- we've never experienced that before.
Teresa Williams
Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be?
Jill Johnson
It's really amazing what a single act of kindness can do. Well, it's gotten me to be a lot more social and outgoing than I used to be.
Alvin Franco
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
It's understanding that the outside world needs help, and by donating to this, it's your act of kindness.
Sabine Hart
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson
Prayer wheel is all about harmony, as I said, loving kindness and peace.
Tenzin Dhonden
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
There was love in what he did. There was kindness. There was no meanness in him.
Russell Johnson
They're just kind of helping out of the kindness of their hearts, to contribute to knowledge.
Debbie Siegel
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
He's a really good guy. He's doing this out of kindness.
Josh Wright
He killed everyone with kindness at all times.
Robert Sanchez
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
Jeph Jacques
She said she thought inmate Lawson had a bad rap in life and she was doing a kindness (by helping him escape).
Dave Johnston
We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, ... even those who aren't helping us directly.
Mark Steele
I'm just overwhelmed by everyone's kindness.
Anita Gutierrez
A little kindness between people is better than a great love of mankind.
Richard Dehmel
Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness.
Donna A. Favors
We're asking kids to get hooked on kindness, not killing.
Ingrid Newkirk
We have to commemorate the people who died and were injured. We would like to showcase the kindness and generosity of the Thai people.
Suwat Liptapanlop
The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.
Philip Guedalla
I like to multitask; I can kill them with kindness.
Shannon Harris
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
You can't replace him. I think that's a big piece that you can't replace because of his personality, and with his heart and his kindness.
Shea Hillenbrand
This is not a one-time thing for Martin. It is a pattern of caring and kindness.
Judy Gresser
My virtue is my kindness. I'm a kind person. My fault is having that become my enemy.
Takehito Koyasu
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.
Robert Alan
KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Ambrose Bierce
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
Roma Downey
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
Harvey Ball
The outpouring of human kindness has been incredible. Seriously, without it we wouldn't have anything.
Jeanne Brooks
He was a man of immense charm, affability and kindness with no side to him.
Andrew Motion
If I live to be 97, we will never forget the kindness of the people of Mississippi, the people of Jackson , and people of this hotel.
Richard Friedman
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
They offered us everything they had. The kindness from those people was phenomenal.
Deanna Lassegard
A man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.
Jay Rockefeller
It's getting them to understand that to do an act of kindness, and making someone smile, and (asking) how can we do that beyond one day.
Sabine Hart
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