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QUOTESHenry David Thoreau said: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived."
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." "When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel." "We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. " "Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help." "Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." "We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness." "One kind word can warm three winter months." "The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. "Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you." "There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come." "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." "Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." "Give to another human being without the expectation of a return." "There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that 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." "Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore." "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." "In Compassion lies the world's true strength." "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." "Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code." "The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones." "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." "Do good and care not to whom." "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are." "It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you." ""True beauty emanates from a selfless heart."" "Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how." "Somewhere, everytime of the day, there will be someone doing a random act of kindness. The Dhali Lhama said, "My religion is very simple. My religion in kindness." I try to be as kind as I can. Everyday, it doesn't matter who it is or who they are, they are worth it. I live by that." "A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle." "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." "He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." "How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it." "Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive." "Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns." "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." "No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one." "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." "There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock." "Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness." "Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways." "Change the world one act of kindness at a time. Remember, our kindness is our power!" "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can." "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." "Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower." "Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." "Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it." "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind." "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." "To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life." "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." "As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech." "Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such." "You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." "It really is much easier to help people and causes than what most people seem to think. You just go out and take that first step and things start falling in place. If they don't, you change direction, but you never pull over and park!" "If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?" "There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot." "So many gods, so many creeds, "The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver and the receiver. "If you were busy being kind, "A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance...." "There's something wonderfully rewarding in being part of an effort that does make a difference." "Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips." "Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after another." "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most." "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness." "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." "A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string." "If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." "Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used." "Kind hearts are the gardens, "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." "Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles." "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." "When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away." "[I have learned] about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder." "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." "I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result." "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." "Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!" "The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." "When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." "After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less gossip, more openness and honesty." "Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a "Hey, look what we did!" feeling." "Random Acts of Kindness has brought more meaning into my life, and I am committed to help spread the word." "In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free to ask questions." "When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down behavior, Random Acts of Kindness works beautifully." "I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the foundation of what a safe community is based on." "Random Acts of Kindness is the most exciting thing I've ever done. It has changed my life. People are so receptive. It just grows and grows!" "Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an opportunity to feel pride in who they are and in what they do." "Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a direct connection between their deeds and the reactions of others." "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." "Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless." "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness 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." "Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it." "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." "He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." "Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo." "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" "Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." "One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. " "Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments." "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." "Kindness gives birth to kindness." "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." "Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us." "A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward." "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference." "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on." "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." "A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." "Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." "Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love." "The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines." "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." "Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." "The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." "Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. " "Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit." "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles." "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindness causes misunderstandings, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." "Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong." "The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey." "Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do." "One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession." "Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate." "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values, including kindness. |
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