Kindness
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- Being good to people is better than preaching a sermon. Being kind and compassionate speaks louder than words.
- Being honest doesn’t mean being a jerk. Being nice doesn’t mean avoiding the truth.
- Being kind to strangers is easy. The real work begins with those closest to you.
- Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others.
- Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
- Better kind words to the living than fine speeches over the grave.
- Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
- Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.
- By being kind to ourselves, we become kind to others.
- Candor is being direct in what you say. Kindness is being considerate in how you say it.
- Care about the beings you care about in gorgeous and surprising ways. Color outside the lines. Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. This is your last chance.Anne HerbertSourced
- Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
- Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands.
- Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
- Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.Mary Wortley MontaguCommonly attributed
- Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.Dalai LamaSourced
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
- Compassion is the language of people who understand that everyone is fighting a battle.
- Compassion. It’s not just a word. It’s a way of being. It’s not just a concept. It’s love in action.
- Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.Joyce MeyerCommonly attributed
- Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the liar with truth.
- Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
- Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Courtesy is one of the cheapest exercises of virtue; it costs us even less than rudeness.
- Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses.
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
- Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.
- Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.
- Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
- Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
- Do not judge others, for you do not know their journey or the battles they are fighting.
- Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.
- Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
- Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Do something good and someone might imitate it.
- Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.
- Encouragement is oxygen for the soul
- Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.