"The best portions of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
Charles Kuralt
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed
in the headlines. .
"The end result of wisdom is...good deeds."
-- Babylonian Talmud.
"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
kindness in feeling creates love.
Lao Tzu
"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no
one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
-- Marcus Aurelius
Eric Hoffer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
-- William James
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict
you?
Unknown
"Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand."
-- C.N. Bovee
"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.
Pass it on."
-- Rev. Henry Burton
Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.
Unknown
B. C. Forbes
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing
life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire
who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.
Mother Theresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
-- Whoopi Goldberg.
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
-- Kahil Gibran