"Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."
-- Anonymous 18th century monk

"The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day.
And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way."
-- Robert Alan

"The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need
Will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed."
-- Robert Alan

"Sometimes just a smile on your face
Can help to make this world a better place.
Stand up for the things that are right.
Try to talk things out instead of fight.
Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good.
You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood."
-- Robert Alan

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
-- Henri Amiel

"It is easy to perform a good action,
but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
-- Aristotle (4th century BC)

"Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself."
-- Louis Auchincloss.

"For the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do."
-- George Linnaeus Banks -- What I live for.

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
-- Saul Bellow.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-- The Bible: Luke VI.31 (circa 75 A.D.)

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
-- William Blake

"Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand."
-- C.N. Bovee

"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."
-- Buddha

"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears.
Pass it on."
-- Rev. Henry Burton

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
-- Pablo Casals.

"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."
-- Chapin

"They're only truly great who are truly good."
-- George Chapman (1654)

"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."
-- Confucius (circa 500 B.C.)

"A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
-- Confucius

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
-- The Dalai Lama

"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
-- Taisen Deshimaru

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
-- Emily Dickinson

"This only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
-- John Donne

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
-- Albert Einstein

"Live, let live, and help live"
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To share often and much...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it."
-- Epictetus (2nd century)

"Happy were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good"
-- John Fountain.

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
-- Andre Gide

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
-- Whoopi Goldberg

"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
-- David Grayson.

"If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics."
-- Gurdjieff

"Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise."
-- DuBose Heyward

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
-- Eric Hoffer.

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."
-- Karen Horney.

"Let us be kinder to one another."
-- Aldous Huxley, on his deathbed

"To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness."
-- Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib (7th century A.D.)

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
-- Samuel Johnson

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen Keller

"The person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthy of our love -- the bag lady at the corner, the strange old man who rides through town on a three-wheel bike all strung up with flags -- is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns, insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches no only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much."
-- Daphne Rose Kingma

"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
-- Abraham Lincoln.

"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
-- Shirley Lord.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacEswan.

"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck.

"There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself."
-- Moses Maimonides

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)

"Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)

"Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one!"
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
-- Edwin Markham

"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."
-- Mohammed.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
-- Henri Nouwen

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "
-- Mother Teresa

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
-- Mother Teresa

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
-- William Penn

"In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity."
-- Alexander Pope. (1733)

"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."
-- Hugh Prather.

"It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."
-- Publilius Syrus. (1st century B.C.)

"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy."
-- Randolph Ray

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always."
-- Sophocles (447 BC)

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force."
-- Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)

"Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley.

"You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-- Ruth Smeltzer.

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles, 409 BC

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
-- Sophocles.

"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."
-- Emmanuel Swedenborg.

"The end result of wisdom is...good deeds."
-- Babylonian Talmud.

"The beginning and end of Torah is performing acts of loving kindness."
-- The Talmud

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them."
-- Leo Tolstoy

"After the verb "to love," the verb, "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world."
-- Bertha Von Suttner

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
-- William Arthur Ward.

"Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
-- Walt Whitman

"The best portions of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth

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