"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it."
- George Alliston





"Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive."
- Unknown





"Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns."
- George Bengis





"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
- Sally Koch





"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave

unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Benjamin Franklin





"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."
- Unknown





"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
- Mother Teresa





"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
- James Matthew Barrie





"There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock."
- Warren G. Harding





"Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness."
- Unknown





"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your

fellow man in many ways."
- Zadik





"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you

can. At all the times you can. To all the poeple you can. As long as ever you can."
- John Wesley





"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice

compassion."
- The Dalai Lama





"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
- S. H. Simmons





"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be

happy."
- Randolph Ray





"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they

may need that smile, and treasure it."
- Christine M. Huppert





"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind."
- Malaysian Proverb





"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill





"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
- Blaise Pascal





"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
- Samuel Johnson





"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
- Washington Irving





"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."
- Katherine Francke





"Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the

maxim of loving kindness is such."
- Confucius





"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
- Publilius Syrus





"It really is much easier to help people and causes than what most people seem to think. You just

go out and take that first step and things start falling in place. If they don't, you change direction,

but you never pull over and park!"
- Jason Crowe, founder (at age 11) of The Cello Cries On, Inc.





"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents

for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
- Nonpareil





"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially

when a little honesty is better than a lot."
- Leroy Jack Syrop





"So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox





"The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the

heart of both the giver and the receiver.

People who have received a little act of kindness so small as a grain from another, tasted it and

then, even if they receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree, when they think of that

little grain of kindness, the palm tree of unkindness will disappear.

So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the centre of our hearts."
- Br. Arockiam, kindness website builder





"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.

If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
- R. Foreman





"A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-

acceptance...."
- Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart





"There's something wonderfully rewarding in being part of an effort that does make a difference."
- Brian O'Connell





"Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips."
- Richard F. Schubert





"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds."
- George Eliot





"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help

another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson





"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to

change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after

another."
- Ellen Goodman





"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do

with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
- Danny Thomas





"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."
- Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist





"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm

the world."
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu





"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
- Audrey Hepburn, when asked about her beauty secrets





"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes

misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."
- Albert Schweitzer





"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls

slipping from a broken string."
- George D. Prentice





"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all

yourself."
- A. Neilen





"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe

and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We

have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
- Blaise Pascal





"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





"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
- Samuel Johnson





"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."
- Sir Arthur Helps





"Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in

trouble are fighting their unseen battles."
- John Hall





"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an

honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life

around."
- Leo Buscaglia





"When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence

trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is

endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
- Dave, Community Organizer, FL





"[I have learned] about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder."
- Barbra Streisand





"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength

and resolution."
- Kahlil Gibran





"I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed

through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things

that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can

send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result."
- Sting





"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





"Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple

act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!"
- Betty, Community Organizer, WA





"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."
- Albert Einstein





"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."
- Harold Kushner





"After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less gossip, more openness and honesty."
- Peter, Teacher, NM





"Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a "Hey, look what we did!" feeling."
- Pat, Teacher, PA





"Random Acts of Kindness has brought more meaning into my life, and I am committed to help

spread the word."
- Carol, State Parent Facilitator, HI





"In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free

to ask questions."
- Sherry, Teacher, MS





"When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down behavior, Random Acts of Kindness

works beautifully."
- Kathy, Teacher, CA





"I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the foundation of what a safe community is

based on."
- Rita, Education Administrator, CO





"Random Acts of Kindness is the most exciting thing I've ever done. It has changed my life.

People are so receptive. It just grows and grows!"
- Betty, Community Organizer, WA





"Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an opportunity to feel pride in who they

are and in what they do."
- Janice, Teacher, NJ





"Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a direct connection between their deeds and

the reactions of others."
- Peter, Teacher, NM





"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop





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





"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





"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





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





"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the

world."
- Anne Frank





"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader





"Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger

seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)





"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no

logical end."
- Scott Adams





"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama





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





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





"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. "
- Anonymous





"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."
- The Talmud





"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people

through the dark."
- Whoopi Goldberg





"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
- Sophocles (447 BC)





"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead





"Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel





"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
- William John Bennett





"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference."
- Barbara DeAngelis





"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it

travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on."
- Henry Burton





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





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





"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi





"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of

God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
- Mother Teresa





"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength

and resolution."
- Kahlil Gibran





"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
- Richard Dehmel





"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato





"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in

feeling creates love."
- Lao-Tzu





"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the

headlines."
- Charles Kuralt





"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for,

but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
- The Dalai Lama





"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson





"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and

love."
- William Wordsworth





"Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness.

Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining,

blazing forth. "
- Itivuttaka Sutta





"Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit."
- Thich Nhat Hanh





"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget

how you made them feel."
- Bonnie Jean Wasmund





"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles."
- Washington Irving





"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindness causes

misunderstandings, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
- Albert Schweitzer





"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that

lifts another person."
- C. Neil Strait





"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong."
- Unknown





"The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult

periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey."
- Diana, Princess of Wales





"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anyting

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."
- Emanuel Swedenborg





"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any

possession."
- Sophocles





"Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned

nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so

there is simply no time for hate."
- Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93





"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those

seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities — those of compassion, understanding, and

loving kindness."
- Thich Nhat Hanh





"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have

virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we

repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values,

including kindness.]"
- Aristotle





"A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation. "
- Lin Hsiu Nei





"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
- Buddhist saying





"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson





"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our

days."
- Stephen Jay Gould





"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg





"Kindness has always mattered to our father. He taught us to honor people, and he has

encouraged us since before I can remember to empathize with human suffering. When I was a

teenage he’d say, 'Ann, go do something that helps people. Do something of service. It will

always make you feel good about your life.'"
- Ann Curry, news anchor





"It's only me, but I can change a life."
- Liz, high school student





"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh





"We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring."
- Hillary Rodham Clinton





"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
- Edward Lytton





"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,

Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain In life’s

uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. "
- Shakespeare





"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. "
- Abraham Joshua Heschel





"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca, philosopher (4 BC)





"'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan

some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the

way, you know?"
- Bow, high school student





"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."
- The Dalai Lama





"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new

sense of belonging."
- Deepak Chopra





"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness,

and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
- Mother Teresa





"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness."
- S. Cohen





"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small

portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
- Robert Kennedy





"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be

dismissed as a “soft issue,” or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But

kindness is the greatest need in all those areas — kindness toward the environment, toward other

nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in

everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the

most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care

properly for this planet we all share."
- Bo Lozoff





"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."
- Paramahansa Yogananda





"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





"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
- Brooke Astor





"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of

encouragement, sympathy and understanding."
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.





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





"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone

else. And it'll become like wildfire."
- Whoopi Goldberg





"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?""
- Martin Luther King, Jr.





"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
- Marcus Aurelius





"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."
- Tyron Edwards





"It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost

of our power."
- Cicero





"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
- Duguet





"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to

give."
- Katherine Hepburn





"Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or

say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' — that reaching out to them in a

friendly way — could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing

to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.' I

live by that."
- Sara, high school student





"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by

accident."
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British essayist





"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity,

generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
- Confucius (551-479 BC)





"Love all Serve all Help ever Hurt never"
- Sathya Sai Baba




This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can

waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of

your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that

you have left behind...let it be something good."

Author Unknown
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your

hair.”

Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese Poet and Novelist
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Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman
American Poet
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