“You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.” — Elizabeth Brundage Copy Share Image
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“You don't need to make a grand contribution in order to change your society, rather you simply need to wake up tomorrow… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“for when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kindness is an open communication between hearts and not required to be learned by searching, teaching, or even preaching. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Random acts of kindness are not random. They are actions of people holding themselves to a higher standard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy,… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous. — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“...he said almost nothing, and ground his teeth against his desire to tell them the truth: God is helpless. We are at… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In so many things I loved I was sadly insufficiently gifted and driven. But writing I could plod along with -- and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
“There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else… — Jeff Wilson Copy Share Image
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
