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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
-Whoopi Goldberg
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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing 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.
-Stephen Grellet
widely attributed; it does not appear in any of his printed works
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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
-David R. Hawkins
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
-William Hazlitt
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
-William Hazlitt
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It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.
-Ella Higginson
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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.
-Eric Hoffer
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
-Eric Hoffer
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
-Eric Hoffer
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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
-Kin Hubbard
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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity
-Hung Tzu-Cheng
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-Washington Irving
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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
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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.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
-Samuel Johnson
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
-Samuel Johnson
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
-Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
-Samuel Johnson
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Caring is a powerful business advantage.
-Scott Johnson
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
-Joseph Joubert
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
-Joseph Joubert
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Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it is passed, until simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
-Dean Koontz
the character of H.R. White in From the Corner of His Eye
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
-Milan Kundera
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Books about Kindness
