There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
~ Olive Schreiner
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
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
~ George E. Woodberry
Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.
~ Robert Brault
Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.
~ Eleanor B. Stock
Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
~ Charles F. Dole
Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.
~ Virgil
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
~ Danny Thomas
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
~ Charles Kingsley
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
~ Dante Alighieri
The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.
~ Dr. Frank Crane
He gives twice who gives promptly.
~ Publilius Syrus
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Mary Pettibone Poole
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
Youth condemns maturity condones.
~ Josephine Preston Peabody
It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.
~ Comtesse Diane
The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
~ Vicki Baum
People who won't help others in trouble because they got into trouble through their own fault would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.
~ Sydney J. Harris
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
~ Christina Baldwin
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
~ Margaret Deland
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
~ Mary Field Belenky
Reform is born of need not pity.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.
~ Rose N. Franzblau
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
~ Lou Ann Walker
It's compassion that makes gods of us.
~ Dorothy Gilman
