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30 Quotes of Kindness
Kindness: the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate
As you continue on your path towards living a happy life full of gratitude and love, use these quotes in your daily practice.
1. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling
2. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato
3. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett
4. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James
5. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
6. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu
7. “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
8. “Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart
9. “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand
10. “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela
11. “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon
12. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran
13. “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan
14. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
16. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
― Amit Ray
17. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao-Tzu
18. “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett
19. “People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater
20. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli
21. “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
22. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran
23. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa
24. “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton
25. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac
27. “I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare
28. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Wendy Mass
29. “What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
― Barbara Kingsolver
30. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop
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