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
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter.
~ Alice Childress
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave-and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
I'm a competitive person but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
You know we're all going in the same direction or at least trying to. So we need to live together get along together and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.
~ Lillian Gideon
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
~ Emma Goldman
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
~ Alice Munro
A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.
~ Carol Holmes
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast it only gets an R rating but if God forbid a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
~ Sally Struthers
If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.
~ Grandma Moses
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato
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
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
~ Diana
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
~ Rebecca Falls
It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.
~ Gertrude Schweitzer
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.
~ Ann Plato
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
~ Johann Von Goethe
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
~ Abigail Van Buren
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
~ Marilyn French
Sympathy is the charm of human life.
~ Grace Aguilar
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
~ William Penn
We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
~ Olive Schreiner
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
~ Therese Of Lisieux
After the verb to Love to Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.
~ Bertha Von Suttner
We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer
Kindness causes us to learn and to forget many things.
~ Madame Swetchine
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
~ Sir Arthur Helps
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~ George Prentice
A kind word is like a Spring day.
~ Russian Proverb
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
~ Samuel Johnson
Kindness affects more than severity.
~ Aesop
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.
~ Anonymous
