The best portion of a good man’s life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
~ William Wordsworth
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 Buscag
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~ William Penn
Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
~ Author Unknown
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
~ Author Unknown
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~ John Wooden
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~ Karl Reiland
How beautiful a day can be. When kindness touches it!
~ George Elliston
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
~ Bob Hope
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
~ Chinese Proverb
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
~ Lucy Larcom
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
~ Seneca
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ Lowell
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~ Og Mandino
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
~ Author Unknown
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain
I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.
~ Unknown
Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson