149 Inspiring Kindness Quotes

In a world that often feels fast-paced and disconnected, taking a moment to reflect on the power of kindness can be both grounding and transformative. Words have the ability to inspire change and ignite compassion, which is why we've curated a collection of the top 149 inspiring kindness quotes. Whether you're seeking a gentle reminder to be kind to yourself, looking to spread positivity among friends, or hoping to influence your community towards greater empathy, these quotes serve as a beautiful starting point. Dive in and let these words of wisdom inspire daily acts of kindness in your life.

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. “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

4. “ 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

5. “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” - Andy Rooney

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. “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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.” - James Boswell

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

9. “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

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

11. “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” - William Makepeace Thackeray

12. “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

13. “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” - Barbara Kingsolver

14. “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

15. “If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett

16. “When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.” - Thomas S. Monson

17. “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

18. “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

19. “The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.” - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

20. “Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?” - N. Eldon Tanner

21. “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

22. “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.

23. “I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” - William Shakespeare

24. “God damn it, you've got to be kind.” - Kurt Vonnegut

25. “One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"...whatever you're feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it...cause a smile today for someone else...and give plenty of hugs.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.” - Steve Maraboli

28. “Search for contentment in each person you meet.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.” - Steve Maraboli

30. “I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.” - Aldous Huxley

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

32. “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

33. “Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "It was very foolish of you to attack that vile Roknari galley-man."Caz: "Yes."R.B.: "And yet, I think, given the same circumstances you would do it again."Caz: "Knowing what I know now...it would be harder. But I would hope... I would pray, Royse, that the gods would still lend me such foolishness in my need."R.B: "What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father's gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool, too, Caz?"Caz: "Oh," "I'm sure of it.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

34. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” - Mother Teresa

35. “My son, do not forget my teaching,But let your heart keep my commandments;For length of days and years of lifeAnd peace they will add to you.Do not let kindness and truth leave you;Bind them around your neck,Write them on the tablet of your heart.So you will find favor and good reputeIn the sight of God and man.Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight.” - Anonymous

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

37. “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” - Jack Kerouac

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

39. “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

40. “...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.” - Kim Harrison

41. “Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.” - Steve Maraboli

42. “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

43. “If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ” - Karen Armstrong

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

45. “Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.” - Ana Monnar

46. “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

47. “But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” - Dinah Craik

48. “One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.” - Mark Ortman

49. “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

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

51. “Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.” - Gretchen Rubin

52. “Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.” - Ellen DeGeneres

53. “I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.” - Dan Barker

54. “We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.” - Helen Simonson

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

56. “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

57. “Kebaikan sejati dan tulus adalah kebaikan yang dilakukan tanpa diketahui orang yang menerima kebaikan.” - Yoshichi Shimada

58. “When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.” - C.S. Lewis

59. “There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment” - Harriet Jacobs

60. “Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?” - T.F. Hodge

61. “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

62. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” - Brian Tracy

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

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.” - Julia Karr

68. “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

69. “For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.” - John Kremer

70. “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.” - Shannon Alder

71. “Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.” - Randa Abdel-Fattah

72. “A dog has the soul of a philosopher.” - Plato

73. “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

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

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

76. “The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.” - Sharon Salzberg

77. “People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.” - Maggie Stiefvater

78. “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

79. “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

80. “The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.” - Terry Pratchett

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

82. “You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.” - Keith Haring

83. “One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.” - Mike Norton

84. “But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.” - Leo Tolstoy

85. “Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.” - Dean Koontz

86. “How good life is when one does something good and just!” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

87. “If we are growing holier, we are growing kinder.” - Andrew Bonar

88. “Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.” - Deborah Day

89. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.” - Deborah Day

90. “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

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

92. “The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.” - Mollie Marti

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

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

95. “Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out all the other life there. Trust, love, kindness – none of those things can ever really bloom in a garden of fear.” - Breeana Puttroff

96. “Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.” - Ilyas Kassam

97. “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

98. “Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.” - Sri Chinmoy

99. “Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.” - Paul Theroux

100. “Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.” - Enid Blyton

101. “Help Spread ❤LOVE Throughout Humanity. Our World Needs To Be Brighten With Kindness Instead Of Darkened With Hatred✌  ” - Timothy Pina

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

103. “Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.” - Steve Goodier

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. “Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.” - Shannon L. Alder

106. “This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.” - Jacqueline Woodson

107. “I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” - Herman Melville

108. “Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.” - Kim R. Shaffer

109. “The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.” - Tara Brach

110. “She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.” - Stephen Chbosky

111. “Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.” - John O'Donohue

112. “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

113. “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

114. “She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.” - Cecilia Dart-Thornton

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

116. “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

117. “Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be” - Kenji Miyazawa

118. “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

119. “You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.” - Jennifer Skiff

120. “Cosmé is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxi’s place, Cosmé is the most efficient maid I’ve ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her react to praise from someone she despises. The Scriptura Sancta calls it “the fire of kindness.” - Rae Carson

121. “No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.” - Merce Cardus

122. “I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

123. “We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

124. “They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.” - William Maxwell

125. “Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.” - The Dalai Lama

126. “I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.” - Cheryl Drake Harris

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

128. “...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.” - Lauren Baratz-Logsted

129. “Kindness is in a prison till it findsRelease in words or deeds.- Kindness” - William Kean Seymour

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

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

132. “Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.” - Alan Cohen

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

134. “Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

135. “If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.” - Anonymous

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

137. “Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

138. “The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

139. “The kind person is rewarded by nature.” - Radostin Chernev

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

141. “Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

142. “I have a very simple philosophy of life:Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness.Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up.Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.” - David Gerrold

143. “Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.” - George Alexiou

144. “Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.” - George Alexiou

145. “Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.” - George Alexiou

146. “Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.” - Bryant McGill

147. “There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.” - Marilynne Robinson

148. “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

149. “I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I cannot do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning from the Holocaust. That each of us is here to fix the holes.I don’t know how much you know about the Holocaust. What is your interest in it? What do you want to do with your life, where do you want to go? What is hurting in you? What are your holes to fix? What is now important in my life, and in your life also, is that after the Holocaust, we are shaking hands with each other, that we are nobody lesser than the other. That we understand the real meaning of what God created us for. You have the task. You have the task to better this world. There are holes in people also but those we create and can fix with love. God wants us whole.” - Alice Lok Cahana