"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

"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

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

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain

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

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

""Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
"
— Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
"
— Laozi

"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

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
— Andy Rooney

"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up."
— Jesse Jackson

"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

"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
— Mother Teresa

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To belittle, you have to be little."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

"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)

"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

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

"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

"There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.

"
— Bob Anderson

"Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing
inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.


Colombia"
— Naomi Shihab Nye (Words Under the Words: Selected Poems)

"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

"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

"If you can't be kind, at least be vague."
— Judith Martin

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
— Robert Brault

"When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. "
— Rachel Naomi Remen

"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)

"Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion."
— James Fadiman (Essential Sufism)

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
— William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

""Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting
some kind of battle."
"
— T.H. Thompson and John Watson

"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

"Kebajikan yang ringan adalah menunjukkan muka berseri-seri dan mengucapkan kata-kata yang lembut"
— Umar bin Khattab

""There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world."

"
— Bob Anderson

"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now."
— William Penn

"Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. "
— Jamie Winship