"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
-Mark Twain
"If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
-Nonpareil
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."
-Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
-Charles Dickens
"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
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-Stephan Grellet
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
-Chinese Proverb
"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
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
-Disraeli
"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
-Sathya Sai Baba
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
-Charles Lamb, British Essayist
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only what you are expecting to give."
-Katherine Hepburn
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
-Duguet
"It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power."
-Cicero
"Right actions for the future, are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."
-Tyron Edwards
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
-Marcus Aurelius
"It's only me, but I can change a life."
-Liz, high school student
"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."
-Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg
"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds, and instead nourish our positive qualities-those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness."
-S. Cohen
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
-Seneca, Philosopher
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire."
-Whoopi Goldberg
"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding."
-John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
-Brooke Astor
"Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given-you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter."
-Dawna Markova
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
-Robert Kennedy
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
-Anonymous
"Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us."
-Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
-Sophocles
"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
-Whoopi Goldberg
"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."
-The Talmud
"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you."
-Anonymous
"Kindness can become it's own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
-Eric Hoffer
"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind, but you destroy yourself when you are cruel."
-Proverbs 11:17
"Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!"
-Henri Frederic Amiel
" 'Twas a thief said the last word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft."
-Robert Browning
"Never let loyalty and kindness get away from you! Wear them like a necklace; write them deep within your heart."
-Proverbs 3:3
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
-Washington Irving
"Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me."
-Edgar A. Guest
"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can." -William Barclay
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Plato
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-Lao-Tzu
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." -Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -Mark Twain
"We are made kind by being kind."
-Eric Hoffer
"Without kindness, there can be no true joy."
-Thomas Carlyle
"Right now is the time to be kind
You cannot do a kindness too soon
for you never know how soon it will
be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Teresa
