"No act of
kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
-- Aesop
"Living
the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts
at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness."
-- Anonymous
18th century monk
| Together
we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world through kindness.
-- Robert
Alan
"Sometimes
just a smile on your face
Can help to make this world a better place.
Stand up for the things that are right.
Try to talk things out instead of
fight.
Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good.
You can help
to make a difference in your neighborhood."
-- Robert
Alan |  |
"The
flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day.
And in
kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way."
-- Robert
Alan
"The
good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need
Will come back to
you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed."
-- Robert Alan
There
is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them
good.
-- Henri Amiel
“Life
is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who
travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.”
-- Henri
Amiel
 | "It
is easy to perform a good action,
but not easy to acquire a settled habit
of performing such actions."
-- Aristotle
*
"It
is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to
do kindness to others."
-- Aristotle
|
"Keep
doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite
of yourself."
-- Louis Auchincloss.
"For
the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For
the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do."
-- George Linnaeus
Banks -- What I live for.
"Goodness
is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
-- Saul Bellow.
"Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-- The Bible: Luke VI.31
(circa 75 A.D.)
"Can
I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
and not seek for kind relief?"
-- William Blake
"Kindness is
a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand."
-- C.N. Bovee
“Today
I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what
is kind than I am of what is true.”
-- Robert Brault
 | *
"I
feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings...I
am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think
of heaven and angels."
-- Pearl
S. Buck |
"Fashion
your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."
-- Buddha
"Have you had
a kindness shown? Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears.
Pass it on."
-- Rev. Henry Burton
Too
often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
-- Leo Buscaglia
"Choose
being kind over being right and you'll be right every time."
-- Richard Carlson
Little
deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven
above.
-- Julia Carney
|
*
How
far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with
the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.
~ George
Washington Carver |  |
| *
"Each
person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on
it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated
but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness
and act on it."
-- Pablo Casals |
"The
creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"They're
only truly great who are truly good."
-- George Chapman (1654)
| |
*
Giving
connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth
to a new sense of belonging.
-- Deepak
Chopra |
"Did
universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
--
Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
"What
you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."
-- Confucius (circa
500 B.C.)
"A
disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
-- Confucius
"Forget
injuries; never forget kindness."
-- Confucius
 |
*
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.
-- Norman
Cousins |
|
*
If
compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world
not be a completely different place?
-- Sheryl
Crow |  |
 | "My
religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
-- The
Dalai Lama *
When
we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and
cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
--
The Dalai Lama If
you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.
-- The
Dalai Lama
|
Compassion
is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential
for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
--
The Dalai Lama
| I
THEREFORE PLEDGE ...
TO CONDUCT myself in a harmonious, peaceable
manner, avoiding selfish or arrogant behaviour, giving love and kindness to those
around me.
-- Guy Dauncy
|  |
 |
*
One's
life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means
of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
-- Simone
de Beauvoir |
"To
receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
-- Taisen Deshimaru
| |
*
"Hugs
can do great amounts of good — especially for children."
-- Princess
Diana |
"If
I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can
ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
-- Emily Dickinson
 | *
“Maybe
you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes
their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life,
but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”
-- Ani DiFranco
|
"This
only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
-- John Donne
"Compassion
is the chief law of human existence."
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
