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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
— Lao Tzu
To belittle, you have to be little.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
— Jesse Jackson
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
— Mary Schmich
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night."He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the 
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.
— Kim Harrison
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
— Wendy Mass, The Candymakers
I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
For it is in giving that we receive.
— Francis of Assisi
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
— J.M. Barrie
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
— Dante Alighieri
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
— Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3
There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.
— Bob Anderson
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
— J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
— Oscar Wilde
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
— Alice Munro
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
— Og Mandino
And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
— Anne Rice
I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
— Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.
— Ana Monnar
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
— Brendan Behan
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
— Dalai Lama XIV
There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward
Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
— Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
— Judith Martin
Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
— Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye
Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.
— Lewis Richmond, Work as a Spiritual Practice: A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job
Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.
— Richard Carlson
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
— Plato
Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace.
— Charles Dickens
Be kind to people and don’t judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.
— Vashti Quiroz-Vega
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— Debbie Macomber, One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Volumes I-III
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.
— William Penn
The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
— Margaret Cho
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
— William Shakespeare, Henry V
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. 
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
— Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor
A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)
— Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.
— Jacqueline Woodson, Each Kindness
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu
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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
— Margaret Edson, Wit
Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet
Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
they say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.....
— Kathryn Stockett
Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people’s lives.My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments.Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.
— JohnA Passaro, Again
It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others, it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being.
— Joyce Vissell
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-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.
— Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.
— Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
— Roy  Bennett
Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.
— Mike  McIntyre, The Kindness of Strangers
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
— Julian Assange
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
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.
— Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. 
— Jamie Winship
Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "It was very foolish of you to attack that vile Roknari galley-man."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "And yet, I think, given the same circumstances you would do it again."Caz: "Knowing what I know now...it would be harder. But I would hope... I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need."R.B: "What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father's gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool, too, Caz?"Caz: "Oh," "I'm sure of it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.
— Julia Karr, XVI
Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.
— Misha Collins
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama
— Dalai Lama XIV
Give until it hurts.
— Corazon Cojuangco Aquino
I have wept in the nightAt my shortness of sightThat to others' needs made me blind,But I never have yetHad a twinge of regretFor being a little too kind.
— C.R. Gibson
I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.
— Aldous Huxley, Island
Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.
— Shannon Hale, A Wonderlandiful World
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
— Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
— Ashly Lorenzana, Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort
There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits of the world. Colleton simply adjusted itself to Mr. Fruit’s harmonies and ordinations. He did whatever he felt was needed and he did it with style. “That’s the Southern way” my grandmother said. “That’s the nice way.
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
— Deborah Day
Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian
— Kowtham Kumar K
To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
Give and receive
—  give big and receive big
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.
— Mark Ortman
George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.
— Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound
Kindness is stronger than iron bars.
— Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
Kindness is like a muscle, the more we exercise it the better we are at it.Kindness starts as a thought but ends as an action. Acting kindly toward others is the only real way to let people know we care about them and their happiness. Without action, kindness just lives in our minds but never touches the real world.Being kind to others doesn’t have to be complex or fancy. Sometimes the simplest acts of kindness are seen as the most sincere, such as holding the door, helping with directions, saying “please” and “thank you,” or even just a smile.
— Steven Handel
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
— Marty Rubin
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
— Annie Lennox
In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.
— Kate Rockland, Falling Is Like This
Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.
— Samael Aun Weor, Revolution of the Dialectic: Esoteric Psychology and Meditation
I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.
— W.H. Davies
Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
— Barack Obama
Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?
— N. Eldon Tanner
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
— Charlotte Gray
For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.
— John Kremer
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.
— Daoud Hari
Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
— Cameron Dokey, Golden:  A Retelling of Rapunzel
They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels.
— Abby Lass
Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.
— Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
Big cities can have big hearts.
— Mary Elise Monsell, The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin
Kindness is a girl's best friend.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.
— Sue Woolfe, The Secret Cure
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people.
— Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
Cookies are happy, because that is their job. Making those you know, and don't know happy. They tell people you care.
— Brent M. Jones
We often look for kindness back  in the same place we gave it, and mostly that is where  we go wrong.  Kindness does not work that way,  you put your kind deeds into the universe and the universe  reflects back that energy  into your life, from unexpected  avenues at most appropriate  times.
— Drishti Bablani
Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else.
— Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.
— Stephen King, It
Accepting others through kindness and love defines a person's true character.
— Rick W. Terry
Just like small acts of kindness can pave the way for a better world, small acts of corruption open the road for a corrupt world.
— Charbel Tadros
I choose to walkwith gratitude, not envy; with faith, not worry; with confidence, not fear; with kindness, not anger.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
A gift.A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.
— Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn
That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word, a vote of support is a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for someone. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.
— Megan Derr, The Painted Crown
Don’t judge people in their reduced circumstances, nobody aspires to be there.
— Shon Mehta
Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made a mess you can’t clean up in a hurry.
— Ursula Vernon, Jackalope Wives
Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.
— André Gide, Isabelle
A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.
— Paul Oxton
I carry your kindness wherever I go. That way your love touches far more than just me.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Be kind to all pets and animals because they will be kind back to you.
— J. Wesley Porter, A Spiritual Dog: "Bear"
the kind peopleare running this worldthey don't know how their one little smile has saved many lives
— Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again.
— C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
If you find a need, fulfill the gap.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Kindness danced through the streets,leaving warmer hearts and smiles everywhere it dared to show itself.
— Scott Stabile
Our own random acts of kindness allow us to receive a gift each day in our hearts.
— Ron Baratono
If you’re in a position to lift someone off the ground
—  i.
Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.
— James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
There are certain lesson you pick up gradually as you go, letting them accumulate after a series of similar mistakes or experiences until you finally realize you've been a fool al along. And then there are lessons that are so massive they smack you in the face - you don't reflect on a period of your life and realize, 'Oh, I learned something then'; you know it's happening when it's happening. The importance of kindness - which extends far beyond 'please,' 'thank you,' and 'your hair doesn't look bad today' - is a combination of both: Over and over in my life, I've been bowled over by how kind people can be, and how that kindness can change your outlook.
— Alyssa Mastromonaco, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
Larry (Summers - director of the National Economic Council) taught me two very important lessons. The first: Never judge a book by its cover (or the articles written about it). The second: Always make time to help a gal out. Kindness - you can call it generosity, or goodwill - really means something.
— Alyssa Mastromonaco
[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.
— Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Sometimes you welcome people only for them to show you how unwelcoming you are. Sometimes you generously help people only for them to show you how extravagant and evil you are. Sometimes you teach people only for them to show you how ignorant you are. Sometimes you open your doors to people only for them to show you how dirty your room is. Sometimes you make way for people only for them to block your ways. Sometimes you draw people closer to you only for them to teach you the real meaning of betrayal and loneliness. Sometimes you smile to people only for them to show you the color of your teeth. Sometimes you play with people only for them to show you how uncouth you are. In life, sometimes, your very best intentions shall be seen as woefully bad. Sometimes in life, your very good deeds and acts would see another meaning, but no matter how people perceive, accept and treat you or your good intentions, acts and deeds, know yourself, and dare not to be changed by circumstances so easily! Regardless of how hurtful circumstances might be, dare to guard your heart and your tongue, so you may not speak what you should never say that can make you miss your reward from the Sovereign Lord. Keep doing what you have to do, as you have to do, as a living sacrifice to your Father who is in Heaven, knowing that your reward is from Him alone, and wait patiently with a calm and an understanding heart for your reward from Him, regardless of the arduous nature of the hurt and trials!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You are positively beautiful and I love you. Pass it on…
— Scott Stabile
Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who saves up money for a prom dress, but at the last minute she says, "It's only clothes," and buys war bonds instead. The play was a big success, and my whole school pledged to buy war bonds, which should have made me happy. But it gave me a queer feeling; it's easy to write propaganda when everyone agrees with you. Do you understand? I think I'd rather bake cookies; it feels more honest. Your friend, LuluSammy looked down at me. "A girl after your own heart!" he said. "In my experience it is a rare female who can say, 'It's only clothes,' and when the war came, you discovered who you really were. Women changed. Children grew up overnight. I wonder what happened to this one.
— Ruth Reichl, Delicious!
Kindness is Love for Unknown.
— Gollapalli Nithin Kumar
Kindness: It's ours to share.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always yearn after kindness, even that of the worthless.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.
— Aristotle
Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
— George Savile Halifax
I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other people’s vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that we are prone to call failings when we are at our most frightened). Vulnerability—particularly the vulnerability we call desire—is our shared biological inheritance. Kindness, in other words, opens us up to the world (and worlds) of other people in ways that we both long for and dread. How can people, from childhood onward, feel confident enough to take such risks?
— Adam Phillips, On Kindness
People are so scared of what they don't know.
— Caitlin Alifirenka, I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
What gives a person’s brief time on this planet meaning is engaging in small acts of kindness. Bestowing an act of kindness upon other people is the greatest gift that a person will ever give to other people and such acts shall renew the gifting person. When we unreservedly accept and love our brethren, we become the ineluctable wind that vivifies the lives of other people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Keep pollinating the world with your kindness.
— H.L. Balcomb, Cinderella In Focus: "Curiosity is the doorway to our personal possibility!" 2nd Edition coming Oct.  31, 2017
Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
We often look for kindness back in the same place we gave it, and mostly that is where we go wrong.Kindness does not work that way, you put your kind deeds into the universe and the universe reflects back that energy into your life, from unexpected avenues at most appropriate times.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.
— Sophia Loren
Many times people take my kindness for stupidity, including "christians" will try to take advantage of your kindness if you allow them, but if I feel helping them I'll tolerate bit of my kindest, not because i'm stupid but because I have a gentle heart
— Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi
The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will always try to provoke you.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.
— Igbinovia Ixrael Lee
Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
I don’t believe in a god, not in the traditional sense anyway. I guess that’s what being raised Catholic has done to me. But I do believe in energy. I do believe in right and wrong. I do believe in kindness and truth.
— R.B. O'Brien
Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.
— Seiji Fuji, Theoretical Modern History
Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
— Neal Shusterman, Scythe
Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.
— Stewart Stafford
Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.
— Germany Kent
This woman did not know me, but she knew this stretch of trail. She didn't know if I was kind or mean, gentle or abrasive, honest or a liar. She didn't need to know what I had accomplished in life or what I had wasted. She just knew that if I was there in her hospital on my birthday, I was probably feeling a little lost. On that basis alone, i mattered to her.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
The very next day after Miss West and I’d talked about her son and missions, she was the same as she’d always been: volatile and unhappy with a hatred that spewed out of her like missiles. I thought I understood why. She must have hated us for being alive when her son was dead.Lately the class has been turning against her. They’re openly hostile, and they whisper plots for revenge. It seems unfair, the way unhappiness flows out of a person, just to ricochet.  “Adam…do you think we have a missions?” He looks at me with a confused expression. “What kind of missions?” “I don’t know. Do you think you have a mission?” I shrug, disappointed. If Adam doesn’t know, then I guess no one does.  A girl turns onto our hall, eyes red and sad, and she passes, Adam sends her a smile. Her whole face brightens and she sends him a smile back.  Hate ricochets, but kindness does too. Page 178.
— Robin Roe
I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
— Brandon Mull, Dragonwatch
Do not wait until Christmas to spread a little cheer,people appreciate kindness, all through of the year.
— Charmaine J. Forde
For all those people, who took advantage of my kindness. Thank you. I won't drop to your level. I'll simply smile and move on.
— Saif Ullah
A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in the world.
— Avijeet Das
They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demons shined brighter, while the wings of the angels were crumpled and bled.
— Akshay Vasu
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and what others do. I have no doubt that my books have much more value than nearly all others out there, and it wouldn't make sense for me to be an author if I couldn't see that, or if I saw the opposite, as I believe that, if we're not upgrading mankind, we're just making it lost and vulnerable to the claws of ignorance.
— Robin Sacredfire
You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hear
— Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
The century of Einstein and Planck was also the century of Hitler. The Gestapo and the scientific renaissance were children of the same age. How humane the nineteenth century seemed, that century of naive physics, when compared with the twentieth century, the century that had killed his [Viktor's] mother. There is a terrible similarity between the principles of Fascism and those of contemporary physics.Fascism has rejected the concept of a separate individuality, the concept of "a man," and operates only with vast aggregates. Contemporary physics speaks of the greater or lesser probability of occurrences within this or that aggregate of individual particles. And are not the terrible mechanics of Fascism founded on the principle of quantum politics, of political probability?Fascism arrived at the idea of the liquidation of entire strata of the population, of entire nations and races, on the grounds that there was a greater probability of overt or covert opposition among these groupings than among others: the mechanics of probabilities and of human aggregates.But no! No! And again no! Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!Man and Fascism cannot co-exist. If Fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.
— Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.
— Deepak Chopra, Fire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens
I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul
— Val Uchendu
No act of kindness deserves a debt in return.
— Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals
She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.
— Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
— Stephen Jay Gould
If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
— Dorothy Hartley
When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.
— Ufuoma Apoki, The Return of Lucas
Life is too short, so don't let no one to ruin your day, the best way to avoid them is to kill them with kindest
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
He trusted that I would have a very pleasant stay: it was so peaceful, and the meals were delicious. As he said it, I realized that he was expressing not just a belief, but a hope, because he was one of those people, and you don't see them every day, who take an instinctive pleasure in the happiness of their fellow men – that he was, in other words, a nice guy.
— Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. -- Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest
The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
You can get anything you want if you're nice to people. People like to do things for people, it's so easy to be kind.
— Kate Moretti, The Vanishing Year
Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.
— Michael Benzehabe
Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness
—  it is a behaviour of killing a defenceless fragile beauty for the sake of our own interest!
Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294
— Michael Benzehabe
Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.
— PureDragonWolf
You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.
— Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars
Are you a Buddhist?""No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.
— Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
She may not be the prettiest, or the smartest, or the wealthiest at the Academy, but she could be kind. Anyone could be kind.
— Alleece Balts, The Crowd
If you appreciate, you will appreciate.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness.
— Kamini Arichandran
Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan