143 Inspiring Kindness Quotes

In a world that sometimes feels fast-paced and self-centered, the simple act of kindness holds the power to transform lives. Whether it’s a small gesture or a grand one, kindness can create ripples that touch hearts and inspire communities. In this collection, we’ve gathered 143 inspiring quotes that celebrate the essence of kindness. These words of wisdom from thought leaders, authors, and visionaries serve as gentle reminders of the beauty and impact of being kind. Dive in, and let these quotes inspire you to weave more kindness into your everyday life, nurturing a more compassionate world around you.

1. “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

2. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” - Plato

3. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” - J.K. Rowling

4. “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

5. “ The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway.The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.Think big anyway.People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.Fight for a few underdogs anyway.What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.Build anyway.People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.Help people anyway.Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.Give the world the best you have anyway.” - Kent M. Keith

6. “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.” - Sam levenson

7. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” - Kahlil Gibran

8. “If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” - Dalai Lama XIV

10. “To belittle, you have to be little.” - Kahill Gibran

11. “KindnessBefore you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the passengers eating maize and chickenwill stare out the window forever.Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,you must travel where the Indian in a white poncholies dead by the side of the road.You must see how this could be you,how he too was someonewho journeyed through the night with plansand 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 voicecatches the thread of all sorrowsand you see the size of the cloth.Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,only kindness that ties your shoesand sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayIt is I you have been looking for,and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.” - Naomi Shihab Nye

12. “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.” - Dalai Lama XIV

13. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” - Desmond Tutu

14. “A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” - Og Mandino

15. “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

16. “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

17. “There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they” - Anna Sewell

18. “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

19. “In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.” - Leon Uris

20. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” - Ray Bradbury

21. “Kindness suits you.""Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.” - Derek Landy

22. “What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.” - Deanna Raybourn

23. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering” - Buddha

24. “Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.” - Joseph Smith Jr.

25. “Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.” - Dara Horn

26. “You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” - Debbie Macomber

27. “All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.” - Kathryn Stockett

28. “I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night."He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.” - Kristin Cashore

29. “I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” - Mother Teresa

30. “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.” - Audrey Hepburn

31. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.” - Steve Maraboli

33. “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

34. “You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.” - Anne Lamott

35. “The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.” - James Oliver Curwood

36. “Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.” - Julian Assange

37. “The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.” - Leanna Renee Hieber

38. “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.” - Dante Alighieri

39. “Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” - Mother Teresa

40. “Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.” - Anne Rice

41. “Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” - Samuel Johnson

42. “Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.” - Benjamin Hoff

43. “Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives” - Charlotte Gray

44. “Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.” - Margaret Edson

45. “It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.” - Jodi Picoult

46. “Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.” - Mary Schmich

47. “Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow."You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich."You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?""Even now," the woman says firmly.” - Margaret Peterson Haddix

48. “But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.” - Linda Olsson

49. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

50. “It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint

51. “The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.""Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all.""That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours!” - George Sand

52. “It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” - Aldous Huxley

53. “(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.” - J.M. Coetzee

54. “There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits of the world. Colleton simply adjusted itself to Mr. Fruit’s harmonies and ordinations. He did whatever he felt was needed and he did it with style. “That’s the Southern way” my grandmother said. “That’s the nice way.” - Pat Conroy

55. “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.” - Robert Michaels MD - 2007 - Graduation Speaker

56. “I have wept in the nightAt my shortness of sightThat to others' needs made me blind,But I never have yetHad a twinge of regretFor being a little too kind.” - C.R. Gibson

57. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

58. “Give until it hurts.” - Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

59. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” - Goldie Hawn

60. “Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.” - Robert Green Ingersoll

61. “Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...” - Rai Aren

62. “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” - Edith Wharton

63. “Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace.” - Charles Dickens

64. “Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning friends and delivered in plastic containers, even the popular habit of making poster boards filled with photos of the dear departed. But now I know why we do those things. It's busywork, all of it. I had so much to take care of, so many arrangements to make, so many people to inform, I didn't have a moment to be engulfed by the ocean of grief that was lapping at my heels. Instead, I waded through the shallows, performing task after task, grateful to have duties to propel me forward.” - Wendy Webb

65. “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” - R.J. Palacio

66. “If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.” - Stephen King

67. “For it is in giving that we receive.” - St. Francis Of Assisi

68. “That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.” - Walter Mosley

69. “On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.” - Edward Gorey

70. “There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.” - Josh Billings

71. “Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.” - Samael Aun Weor

72. “The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.” - Swami Vivekananda

73. “If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.” - Clare Vanderpool

74. “Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.” - Doris Lessing

75. “The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.” - C.S. Lewis

76. “Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.” - Margaret Mitchell

77. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” - Shannon L. Alder

78. “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” - Annie Lennox

79. “George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.” - Mette Ivie Harrison

80. “Kindness is stronger than iron bars.” - Margaret George

81. “When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.” - Walter Savage Landor

82. “In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.” - Richelle Goodrich

83. “What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.” - Steve Berry

84. “Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.” - Mike McIntyre

85. “It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.” - Ilyas Kassam

86. “I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.” - Richelle Goodrich

87. “Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.” - Sharon Salzberg

88. “I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself” - Sean Covey

89. “Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn’t understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory’s uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial.” - Richelle Goodrich

90. “But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,The heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.” - Robert Burns

91. “Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]” - Lionel Shriver

92. “DogfishI wantedThe past to go away, I wantedTo leave it, like another country; I wantedMy life to close, and openLike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song Where it fallsDown over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted To hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,Whoever I was, I wasAliveFor a little while.…mostly, I want to be kind.And nobody, of course, is kind,Or mean,For a simple reason.And nobody gets out of it, having to Swim through the fires to stay inThis world.” - Mary Oliver

93. “I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” - Brendan Behan

94. “Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.” - Mollie Marti

95. “Your greatest path of influence is love.” - Mollie Marti

96. “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

97. “A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.” - Feroz Bham

98. “Be nice. Be good. Be happy. If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

99. “They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels.” - Abby Lass

100. “Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.” - Sir Thomas More

101. “Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

102. “The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.” - Jason Pollock

103. “This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.” - Victor Hugo

104. “Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.” - Lauren Willig

105. “Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

106. “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

107. “Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.” - Erica Goros

108. “First do no harm!” - Sophie E. Tallis

109. “Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

110. “No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end andlearn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.” - Haruki Murakami

111. “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

112. “Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.” - Cecilia Dart-Thornton

113. “MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEINGRIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.” - R. J. Palacio

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

118. “Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.” - Usama Ejaz

119. “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

120. “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

121. “Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.” - Nikki Rosen

122. “We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

123. “...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.” - Lauren Baratz-Logsted

124. “Kindness is for all times in all situations - not just when it suits you.” - Audray Landrum

125. “We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way” - David Bresler

126. “I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

127. “Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.” - Thurman P. Banks Jr.

128. “If you have a choice, choose kindness.” - Mary Meade Eastman

129. “You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.” - Ruta Sepetys

130. “Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

131. “It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.” - Steve Maraboli

132. “Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love” - Bryant McGill

133. “How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.” - George MacDonald

134. “If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.” - Bryant McGill

135. “Kindness is the supreme intelligence.” - Bryant McGill

136. “There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.” - Bryant McGill

137. “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

138. “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

139. “To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart.[...]For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugène had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls.” - Honoré de Balzac

140. “Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.” - Bryant McGill

141. “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

142. “I could really use someone else's smile today.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

143. “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