The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Be kind to one another. Bye bye.

To belittle you have to be little.

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a beautiful thing.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses but now I see you completely did I tell you youre beautiful so kind to animals children and me...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

But remember boy that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Kindness is the beginning and the end of the law.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to acts of kindness are the steppingstones to making the world a better placebecause we become better people in it.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts ourselves we have no idea of the depth and breadth of loves reach.

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

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.

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

All doors are open to courtesy.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

Wherever there is a human being there is a chance for kindness.

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self contradiction.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

Compassion is the fellow feeling of the unsound.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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.

You dont always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

Kindness is wisdom.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Kindness is a language which the deaf and the blind can read.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest or some other motive.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.

The value of compassion cannot be over emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

Never take for granted the people who show you love and kindness.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

True love is not the kind of thing you should turn down.

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Let me hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

I required kindness and sympathy but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Big cities can have big hearts.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Kind words can be short & easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

Be kind be all sympathyFor each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise let it bloom forth in a riot.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must and wished she could have done more.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

There is one advantage to realizing that youre never going to get it right you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are.

But still Ayumi said it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.You may be right Aomame said But its too late to trade it in for another one.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice be kind.

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Capable generous men do not create victims they nurture victims.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

What is kinderto believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their enduranceor to see them as they are and accept it because it makes them comfortable

Needing kindness myself I am kinder now and we get on amazingly well. p. 110

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.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

We would soon be on our way to war where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

If you hit bottom theres a whole lot of people here to help you up

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes see with eyes of wholeness and act with integrity and kindness.

But deep this truth impressd my mind Thro all His works abroadThe heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements but only a series of small kindnesses have not had wasted lives

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.

What chilling blows we sufferthanks to our conflicting willswhenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

When we live in the love of God we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Nothing wrote Tolstoy can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Im not denying their kindness said the Rani. But after all kindness isnt the only virtue.

Kindness isnt so difficult when the object is worthy.

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being.

No matter where we come from a little sugar is what everybody demands in life what everybody needs in life. Its perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.

Everyone responds to kindness.

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

If you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen

Practice kindness particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

To say “we” and mean “I” is one of the most recondite insults.

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

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

Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.

The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

They werent nice words he said. He couldve lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

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.

I believe in giving kindness regardless of how unreasonable and selfcentered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile.

You cant live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

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.

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.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

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

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts and dont put up with people that are reckless with yours.

But she was not even grateful to him for it nothing good on Pierres 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.

Sometimes its easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

I know most people want others to have good lives and when they understand the situation they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings I believe are most admirable.

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

they say its like true love good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you dont know about a person. i wonder if i couldve made her days a little bit easier if Id tried. if id treated her a little nicer.....

Its much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

It seemed like an original act the very kindest act of being human that he listened.

I like Kindness its something the Government cant tax and its free to give away that will return to you some day

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

This is what kindness does Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out like a ripple into the world.

If youve ever been homesick or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you youll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Kindness is a mark of faith whoever is not has no faith.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

I love thee for a heart thats kindnot for the knowledge in thy mind.

He gives me a little shrug like of course why else And at this point I really have no right to be surprised by peoples capacity for kindness and generosity but still I am. Im floored every time.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Be kind to others as you would like them to be to you.Encourage dont discourage.

Each time I perform an act of kindness a part of me heals.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Kindness goes a long ways lots o' times when it ought t' stay at home.

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Kindness is for all times in all situations not just when it suits you.

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 powr it has over my mind.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever since thereby the engagements of mens hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Loving kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference in our own lives and those of others.

Service is a smile. nbspIt is an acknowledging wave a reaching handshake a friendly wink and a warm hug. nbsp Its these simple acts that matter most because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.