If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to
start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one
person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the
afternoon. . . . That is the secret. Start right now.
---Sister Chän Khöng
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help
them, at least don’t hurt them.
---The Dalai Lama
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited
in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task
must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.
---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.
---Henry James
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
---Han Suyin
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love.
Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy."
---Randolph Ray
Compliments echo through the valley but eventually escape, so must be
spoken again. Insults are forever trapped and bear no repeating.
---Ray Messer Jr
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
---Mahatma Gandhi
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
---William Shakespeare
I believe… that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
---Thomas Jefferson
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
---Duguet
When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say
something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.
---Unknown
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
---George W. Crane
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity
freshen into smiles.
---Washington Irving
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I
do not know.
---W. H. Auden
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that
never hurts.
---Charles Dickens
What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in
the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do
not agree with the big way of doing things.
---Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
---Mother Teresa
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
---Aesop
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected
much, and most of all yourself.
---A. Neilen
I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in
my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if
the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or
a touch of joy within your heart, then in living, I have made my mark.
---Thomas L. Odem Jr.
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
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other
argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give
encouragement.
---George Adams
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never
lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness
gathers love.
---Basil
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have
a smooth even place to walk on.
---Myrtle Reed
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
---Mark Twain
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like the light in the dark of dismal night, let your self stand out as
glowing, warm, and welcome.
---Validivar
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like
you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget
you.
---William Arthur
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world.
---Anne Frank
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a
caring, sharing person inside.
---Denis Waitley
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
---Robert G. Ingersoll
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles,
to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is
inconceivable.
---Joseph Addison
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that
receives it.
---Edith Wharton
Fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
---Hada Bejar
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it
benefits the bestower.
---S. H. Simmons
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone
else.
---Charles Dickens
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but
serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.
---Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you
need.
---Kahlil Gibran
There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
No one goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
Comes back into our own.
---Edwin Markham
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door
open.
---Rabrindranath Tagore
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.
---Leo Buscaglia
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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run
over.
---James Boswell
The kindness of some is too much like the echo, returning the counterpart
of what it receives, not more, and sometimes less.
---George Bowers
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown
away.
---Arthur Helps
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness
causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
---Albert Schweitzer
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures;
costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives,
and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
---Erastus Wiman
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable
draught.
---Agnes Repplier
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually
practiced, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great
talents and accomplishments.
---M.A. Kelty
How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a
smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into
oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives,
by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
---Lawrence Sterne
The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike
deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
---Henry Clay
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have
received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.
---Abraham Lincoln
It's the little things we do and say
that mean so much as we go our way.
One kindly deed can lift a load,
from weary shoulders on the road.
---Willa Hoey
How far that little candle throws his beam!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
---William Shakespeare
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the
game even starts.
---Addison Walker
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than
a gallon of vinegar.
---Benjamin Franklin
When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your
heart.
---Donna Reed
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
---Lao-Tzu
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
---Henry David Thoreau
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting
people up.
---John Andrew Holmes
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
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
---Shigenori Kameoka
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but
manifestations of strength and resolutions.
---Kahlil Gibran
