Kindness

"Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls." -Frances Hodgson Burnett

"The world needs more kindness." -Neal A. Maxwell

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"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

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Plato

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." -John E. Southard

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true." -Robert Brault

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." -Bob Hope

"Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." -Charles H. Spurgeon

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are." -Anonymous

"Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer." -Mignon McLaughlin

"There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear." -Frank Tyger

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." -Seneca

"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how." -Anonymous

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." -Abraham Joshua Heschel

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." -John Wooden

"If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be." -Antonio Porchia

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines." -Charles Kuralt

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." -Malayan Proverb

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." -Marian Wright Edelman

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses." -Chinese Proverb

"Kindness is the greatest wisdom." -Anonymous

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving." -Max Beerbohm

"To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error." -Liz Armbruster

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." -William Penn

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." -Benjamin Disraeli

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!" -George Elliston

"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." -from the television show My So-Called Life

"Always be a little kinder than necessary." -James M. Barrie

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -Dalai Lama

"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." -Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.