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• Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

  Henry James

  Topics in Kindness

• In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do — not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Belief, Kindness, Religion

  Tags in Globalism, Understanding

• No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

  Amelia Earhart

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Interdependence

• Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Children, Kindness

  Tags in Compassion, Feeling

• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Beauty, Kindness

  Tags in Good

• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Topics in Honesty, Kindness

  Tags in Hospitality

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Kindness, Life

  Tags in Compassion, Listening

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Kindness, Love

• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Kindness

• To say “we” and mean “I” is one of the most recondite insults.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Inclusion

• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Hope

• Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

  Confucius

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Gratitude

• Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Kindness, Life

  Tags in Courtesy

• We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Topics in Genius, Kindness, Love

  Tags in Fame

• The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.

  William Wordsworth

  Topics in Kindness, Life, Love

• Even after all this time,
  The sun never says to the earth,
  “You owe me.”
  Look what happens with
  A love like that.
  It lights the whole sky.

  Hafez

  Topics in Appreciation, Expectations, Friendship, Kindness, Life, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Generosity, Hospitality, Giving, Forgiveness, Freedom, Faith

• Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference — in our own lives and those of others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Topics in Kindness, Love

  Tags in Compassion

• We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

  Ellen Goodman

  Topics in Kindness, Love, Luck

  Tags in Gratitude, Forgiveness, Marriage

• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Belief, Kindness, Life, Nature

  Tags in Humanism, Heaven, Earth, Faith, Hope

• In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Persistence