c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.
— Maud Hart Lovelace, Heaven to Betsy
Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
— Shannon L. Alder
The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
— Bob Kerrey
I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn’t.
— Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only fair that others enjoy the same right I demand for myself – not to be disturbed – and also because I think that the world doesn’t need more than the natural evils it already has. All of us in this world are living on board a ship that is sailing from one unknown port to another, and we should treat each other with a traveller’s cordiality. Not to do good, because I don’t know what good is, nor even if I do it when I think I do. How do I know what evils I generate if I give a beggar money? How do I know what evils I produce if I teach or instruct? Not knowing, I refrain. And besides, I think that to help or clarify is, in a certain way, to commit the evil of interfering in the lives of others. Kindness depends on a whim of our mood, and we have no right to make others the victims of our whims, however humane or kind-hearted they may be. Good deeds are impositions; that’s why I categorically abhor them.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Kindness don't have no boundaries.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Aa is for animals, friends, not food. We don't eat our friends. They would find it quite rude!
— Ruby Roth, V Is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
— Eric Hoffer
If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.
— Chirag Tulsiani
The greatest gift that you can give to others is kindness.
— M. Howson
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
— Sarah Fielding
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
— Elizabeth Brundage, Somebody Else's Daughter
One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.
— Helen Keller, The Open Door
A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or gone. Some of the people who were able to look at the dirtiest, the poorest, the gays, the straights, the drug users, those in recovery, the basest of sinners, and those who were just… plain… different.They were able to look at them all and only see strength. Beauty. Potential. Hope.And if we boil it down, isn’t that what love actually is?
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Kindness always leaves a timeless deposit on the heart.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Spread LOVE and KINDNESS wherever you go. Then you can be sure you are never far from it!
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
— John Milton
I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.
— Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline
— Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice
You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.
— Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness
— Nikki Rosen
As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.
— Jeffrey Lang
I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
We need to learn to dance more softly.
— Nikki Rosen, Dancing Softly
Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It's simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles. Friendliness finds itself surrounded by friends. Giving hugs creates hugs. Offered help is reciprocated. In contrast, if you hurt people you will find much hurt in your life. Unkindness begets unkindness. Misery begets misery. A dour face will receive many sour looks in response. That said, it is easy to understand that if you want a happy life you must contribute to the happiness of those around you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass
I cannot hate gay men, I cannot hate homosexuality. At the lowest points in my life, when all else abandoned me, my gay men friends were my sisters, aunts, mothers who lifted me up on their shoulders and reminded me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. If I were to hate gay men, or to condemn them just because they're gay, I would be a hypocrite. I simply cannot turn my back on arms that held me in my darkest hours.
— C. JoyBell C.
You will find two kinds of people in the world. Some say that there are the bad and the good. But it isn’t like that. Since what is good for one may be bad for another. No, that doesn’t work. You have to depend on your intuition.“There are those who make you feel inside as if you are drinking a good, warm soup – even if you are hungry and the two of you have nothing to eat. In spite of that they nourish you.“And then there are those who cause you to freeze inside, even if you are sitting before a roaring fire and have eaten your fill. Those you should keep away from. They are not good for you, even though others might say that they are good people…
— Bodil Bredsdorff, The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
— Ramsey Clark
She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.
— Nikki Rosen, Dancing Softly
What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.
— Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
— M.A.Kelty
My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There are two souls in a body of a human these souls are GOD & DEVIL.if u r going to do any work it is good or ither it is bad always listen ur GOD's soul.
— Hoshiyar
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Don't worry about what others think about you
—  worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you.
The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.
— George Alexiou
I have a very simple philosophy of life:Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness.Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up.Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.
— David Gerrold
Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.
— George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.
— Stewart O'Nan, Emily, Alone
For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Happiness has no time limits or conditions
—  the only requirement is to give it away.
Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do wrong? And a young American man, he put me in the right knowledge. You didn’t do anything wrong, he said, the world did something wrong, terribly wrong. This young man, he went to Budapest in the beginning of it all, and he saved Jews, he gave out passports of Sweden, and because the Hungarians didn’t know how to read Swedish, this was how my father was saved. And thousands of others too, with these pieces of paper. I am here to tell you that one man can make a difference, and that man can be you, any of you…
— Alice Lok Cahana
Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
— George Alexiou
Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Kindness is the supreme intelligence.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I cannot do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning from the Holocaust. That each of us is here to fix the holes.I don’t know how much you know about the Holocaust. What is your interest in it? What do you want to do with your life, where do you want to go? What is hurting in you? What are your holes to fix? What is now important in my life, and in your life also, is that after the Holocaust, we are shaking hands with each other, that we are nobody lesser than the other. That we understand the real meaning of what God created us for. You have the task. You have the task to better this world. There are holes in people also but those we create and can fix with love. God wants us whole.
— Alice Lok Cahana
Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be!
— Jay Woodman
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
— Pablo Casals
The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.
— William Kean Seymour, The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems
You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.
— Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand? 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
— Alan Cohen
For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly whether or not we deem them deserving.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Kindness is in a prison till it findsRelease in words or deeds.
— William Kean Seymour, The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems
If you have a choice, choose kindness.
— Mary Meade Eastman
My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.
— Dalai Lama XIV, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.
— Ilyas Kassam
...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.
— Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Crazy Beautiful
Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.
— Usama Ejaz
The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us.
— Dorothy Day
Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr.
I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.
— Shawn Michael Severud, Perdida: Essays to Be Read While Intoxicated
Cottontail knocked on the big front door and was admitted to the Palace. There she stood in her funny country clothes but none of the other four Easter Bunnies laughed, for they were wise and kind and knew better.
— DuBose Heyward, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.
— Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Crazy Beautiful
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The kind person is rewarded by nature.
— Radostin Chernev
He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
We change the world a little each day with our kindness.
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
— Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.
— Nahoko Uehashi, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
— Steve Goodier, Prescription for Peace: Sixty-Second Readings to Help You Build a Better Life
Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.
— L.M. Fields
It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you - the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will never disappear, and it is worth very much to God. Peter 3:3-4
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
I believe in giving kindness, regardless of how unreasonable and self-centered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile.
— Lionel Suggs
Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.
— Nikki Rosen, Dancing Softly
To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon
She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.
— Brenda Hiatt, Rogue's Honor
...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire."Go away!" screamed Devnee.He did not answer."I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me."He laughed."No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team.
— Caroline B. Cooney, Evil Returns
I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.
— Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness
Cosmé is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxi’s place, Cosmé is the most efficient maid I’ve ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her react to praise from someone she despises. The Scriptura Sancta calls it “the fire of kindness.
— Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns
But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
— Enid Blyton, House at the Corner
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness
—  the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
— Bryant McGill
Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be
— Kenji Miyazawa, Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems
No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.
— Merce Cardus, I say Who, What, and Where!
A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.
— Feroz Bham
Kindness is for all times in all situations - not just when it suits you.
— Audray Landrum
I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually." Harrison finally looks at us. "My life I thought-but I mean... it's nothing.""Don't cry" Grace says. "You have a lot of time.""No, I don't.""Yeah, you do.""No.-""Yeah! Yeah, you do. It's okay. Look-"She does something that is so amazingly selfless and also gross. She tilts Harrison's face up and gives him a sweet kiss on the lips and it lasts long enough for him to taste her back, to move his mouth against hers.Harrison stares at her dumbfounded but he's stopped cryingShe is so nice.
— Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and people who were generous, and people who comforted one another.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square and white.Timidly I licked it and discovered that it was sweet and delicious. I realize now that it must have been a sugar cube;but still, more than twenty years later, I remember clearly the joy I felt then. It's not just children; everyone seems to be deeply touched by unexpected joy brought to them by others and is unable to forget it. That child will be grown up by now, and if he hasn't forgotten me, whenever he sees a crying child he'll want to say a kind word and wipe the kid's nose. And when that kid grows up, he'll do the same. To do something kind for another is never a bad feeling; it fosters a spirit of caring for other people. And who knows,after a hundrend years, human beings may even learn to cooperate with one another...Yes, that was it: I'd try to teach children that if they felt glad when someone gave them a single piece of candy,then they in turn should give to others.
— Sayo Masuda
I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Be kind to others as you would like them to be to you.Encourage ,don't discourage.
— wordfaith3
The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.
— Jason Pollock
He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?
— David  Holdsworth, Angelos
Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.
— Marcia K. Vaughan, Irena's Jars of Secrets
Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.
— Kim R. Shaffer
The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.
— MaryElizabeth Williams
Kindness is a mark of faith, whoever is not; has no faith.
— Muhammad (PBUH)
Help Spread ❤LOVE Throughout Humanity. Our World Needs To Be Brighten With Kindness Instead Of Darkened With Hatred✌  
— Timothy Pina, Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration
Not all those who wander are lost.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
— Anita Desai
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
— Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
— G.K. Chesterton
All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
— Judith Thurman
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
— Gustave Flaubert
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
— Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
— Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
— Henry Miller
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Historical, Literary
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
— Pat Conroy
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.
— Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Self-consciousness kills communication.
— Rick Steves
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
— Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.
— Augustine of Hippo
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
— Mark Twain
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
— Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
— Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. 
— Lin Yutang
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
— Erol Ozan
The journey itself is my home.
— Bashō Matsuo
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
— Cesare Pavese
For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.
— Robert Penn Warren
The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.
— Anderson Cooper
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
— Erma Bombeck
Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.
— Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
— Paul Theroux
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
— Thornton Wilder, Our Town
One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.
— Jennifer   Ball, Higher Math: The Book Moose Minnion Never Wrote: A Novel
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect 
— Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787
I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.
— Winna Efendi, The Journeys
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
— Clifton Fadiman
The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.
— Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
— Susan Wiggs, The Charm School
I keep going backas if Im looking for something I have lostback to the motherland, sisterland, fatherlandback to the beacon, the breastthe smell and taste of the breeze,and the singing of the rain.
— Heather Nova, The Sorrowjoy
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.
— Danzy Senna
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
— Michael Palin
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.
— Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.
— Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.
— Michael Mewshaw
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
— Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
— Charles Bukowski
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
— Alex Garland, The Beach
In my errant life I roamedTo learn the secrets of women and men,Of gods and dreams.I've known all the countries of our world,I've lived a thousand lives:Many lives I lived in love, Other lives I squandered.For in my life I never traveled, All I did was wander.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
— John Ruskin
You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.
— Bill Bryson
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world
—  it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.
— Anthony Doerr
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.
— Donald Richie, A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan
You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
— John Steinbeck
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. 
— Agnes Repplier