Since I seem to have amassed quite a few quotes and it may take you a while to get through them, go ahead and listen to to one of my fave songs while you read. Hope you enjoy! More quotes here 1."Count these among your blessings... the friendly morning sky, the peaceful night, and all the colors, beauties, and splendors of a living earth." ED CUNNINGHAM 2."Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." KAREN RAVN 3."If you open your heart to beauty, you’ll find it In all of the kind, caring deeds people do... If you open your life to beauty, you’ll show it, And others will find it reflected in you." K. RAVN 4.“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays through and around us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” -Alan Chadwick 5.“You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” -Buffy Sainte-Marie 6.“Go slowly, breathe, and smile.” -Thich Nhat Hanh 7.“The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust 8.“We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.” -Suzuki Roshi 9.“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”-Henry David Thoreau 10.“Life is a cup to be filled, not drained.” -Anonymous 11.“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.” -Julia Carney 12.“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon 13.“I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now...for I shall not pass this way again.” -Etienne De Grellet 14.“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” -Chief Seattle 15.“Those who can most truly be accounted brave, are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.” -Pericles 16."It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."-Cicero 17."Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness."-Montaigne 18."One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."-Malayan proverb 19."I have had that curiously symbolical and reassuring pleasure, of being entertained with overflowing and simple kindness by a family of totally unknown people-an adventure which always brings home to me the goodwill of the world."-A.C. Benson 20."It is because a man feels that he is and ought to be free, that he hates to yield to force, but gives way easily to kindness."-Jean Guilbert 21."We can do no great things-only small things with great love."-Mother Teresa 22."It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can." -Sydney Smith 23."To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest."-Zora Neale Hurston 24."Get your children to go through their toys and put aside those they want to donate to children who are less fortunate." 25."How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank 26."Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."-Walter Elliott 27."Smile at the person in the car next to you or wave hello to a pedestrian in the crosswalk. It can really lift not only the other person’s spirits, but your own." 28."If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."-Pearl Bailey 29."No one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent, and not one is altogether vile. Not a single one but has at some time wept."-H.G. Wells 30."The heart has its own reasons which reason does not know."-Blaise Pascal 31."If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it." -William Arthur Ward 32."To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all those who cross our path."-Agnes Repplier 33."If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends-you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it-that’s the time to hold you tongue."-Alice Duer Miller 34."The best portions of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and love." -William Wordsworth 35."Ask an older person to tell you a story about his or her youth, such as what her favorite song was and why,or how he met his spouse." 36."I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams 37."When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason has leftthem."-Willa Cather 38."The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment."-John Gay 39."My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness."-Michelangelo 40."It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."-Irish proverb 41."We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom."-Marie Von Ebner-Echenbach 42."If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."-Mary Webb 43."A kind word is like a spring day."-Russian proverb 44.“True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it.”-Charles Fox 45.“Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.”-German Proverb 46.“Nobody is kind only to one person at once, but to many persons in one.”-Frederick Faber 47.“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining form hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.”-Olive Schreiner 48.“In the quiet hours when we are alone with ourselves and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a weak moment in which we wonder...what good we are doing.” -A.A. Milne 49.“Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”-Walt Whitman 50.“Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.”-Madame Swetchine Wow, you've read this many of my quotes? Thanks. If you want to take a break now and come back later I wouldn't blame you. Let me out of here! My eyes hurt from reading too much!! 51.“People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.”-Bertolt Brecht 52.“The deed is all, not the glory.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 53.“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 54.“We are sometimes so occupied with being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.” -Saint Francis de Sales 55.“No joy can equal the joy of serving others.” -Sai Baba 56.“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” -Casare Pavese 57.“Joyful is the accumulation of good work.” -The Dhammapada 58.“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -Ursula K. LeGuin 59.“Take a walk, notice the gorgeousness of the day, and notice the ways you are grateful for your surroundings.” 60.“Let us be kinder to one another.” -Aldous Huxley on his deathbed 61.“Pick a bouquet of wildflowers and put it under someone’s windshield wiper.” 62.“Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.” -Zadik 63.“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.”-St. Theresa of Lisieux 64.“Sing or hum something today, in the shower, the car, or just your home, and notice how it lifts the spirits.” 65.“When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated.”-Ralph Nader 66.“It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.” -Jane Rule 67.“When you see a child, acknowledge them and send them love.” 68.“The real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.” -Tolstoy 69.“By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.” -Lao-Tse 70.“Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all wisdom of the wise.” -DuBose Heyward 71.“Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.” -Irish proverb 72.“Hold a random acts of kindness party where everyone who comes tells the stories of kindnesses in their life.” 73.“Try to acknowledge something about someone every day: their skills, their qualities, their appearance, or the impact they have on you. Also acknowledge these things in yourself.” 74.“We are all quite alike; indeed at the core we are all one, all lost-and found-in the same mysterious enterprise that is life.” -Daphne Rose Kingma 75.“Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.” -Albert Einstein 76.“The ideals which have lighted my way...have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The true subjects of human efforts-possessions, outward success, luxury-have always seemed to me contemptible.” -Albert Einstein 77.“The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men.” Sir Arthur Keith 78.“Smile at someone on your way to work, at work, or on your way home from work today.” 79.“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 80.“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.” -William Faulkner 81.“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau 82.“Whatsoever, after due examination an analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” -Buddha 83.“Organize some friends, family, or neighbors to help repair of renovate something in an elderly person’s home.” 84.“There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing of the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.” -Alfred Adler 85.“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, and kindness.” -Confucius 86.“The great, dominant, all controlling fact of this life is the innate bias of the human spirit, not toward evil, as the theologists tell us, but towards good.” -William Archer 87.“Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.”-Daphne Rose Kingma 88.“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the Prophets.” -Matthew 7:12 89."Be kind and gentle to those who are old, For kindness is dearer and than gold." -American proverb 90."The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence." -George Eliot 91."Goodness is easier to recognize than to define; only the greatest novelists can portray good people." -W.H. Auden 92."She doeth little kindnesses which most leave undone, or despise." -James Russell Lowell 93."The good is the enemy of the beast." -English proverb 94."Wherever that is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness." -Seneca 95."It is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech." -Cicero 96."The greatest transcendence a man may achieve is to be kind in infirmity."-Medieval Latin proverb 97."None can be call’d deform’d but the unkind." -William Shakespeare 98."A kindness loses its grace by being noised abroad, Who desires it to be remembered should forget it." -Pierre Corneille 99."Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse." -Kahlil Gibran 100."The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."-T.S. Eliot Once again, the option to leave and return at a later time. Let me out of here! My eyes still hurt from reading too much!! 101."As ‘unkindness has no remedy at law,’ let its avoidance be with you a point of honor."-Hosea Ballou 102."When individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."-Daniel Long 103."One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy-if I may."-Robert Louis Stevenson 104."So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind, Is all the sad world needs." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox 105."Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." -Unknown 106."I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind." -W.H. Davis 107."Good and evil do not befall men without reason. Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct."-Confucius 108."Bring color into your home or office with flowers, an inexpensive poster or card, or just pieces of colored paper cut from a magazine." 109."Good and bad men are each less so than they seem."-Samuel Taylor Coleridge 110."Let us not be wearing in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."-New Testament 111."Every day say at least on kind thing to everyone you talk to. This isn’t hard, and it makes you and the people you talk to feel good."-Brad, 5th grade 112."Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with." -American Proverb 113."I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have." -Rupert Brooke 114."Philosophers and clergymen are always discussing why we should be good as if anyone doubted that we ought to be." -G.M. Trevelyan 115."She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonable happy you have to be reasonably good."-Carolyn Kizer 116."The revolutionary may be surprised to discover that the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most astonishing things. To treat one’s neighbor as oneself is still the fundamental maxim for revolutions."-Freya Stark 117."Give an anonymous gift." 118.“Nature, in giving tears to man, Confessed that he had a tender heart; this is his noblest quality.” -Juvenal 119.“Spend a week just being aware of things in nature that befriend you.” 120.“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” -Publilius Syrus 121.“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 122.“The good we think that we voluntarily perform we could not help doing if we tried.” -Anonymous 123.“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”-Robert Louis Stevenson 124.“Take the opportunity in conversations with friends to tell them about kindnesses you have experienced and ask about their experiences. Just talking about acts of kindness brings them alive in the world.” 125.“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”-G. K. Chesterton 126.“The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 127.“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you’ll die to regret it.” -Harriet Doerr 128.“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.” -Charles Kingsley 129.“The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.” -Aristotle 130.“By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted-- Which Blossom in the dark.” -Emily Dickinson 131.“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”-Eric Hoffer 132.“For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.” -Sophocles 133.“I learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” -Kahlil Gibran 134.“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop 135.“As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”James Boswell 136.“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue....[They are] gravity, generosity or soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”-Confucius 137.“For kindness is a Mine, when great and true, Of Nobler Ore than even Indians knew; ‘Tis all that Mortals can on Heav’n bestow, And all that Heav’n can value here below.” -Katherine Fowler Philips 138.“Kindness and generosity...form the true morality of human actions.”-Germaine de Staël 139.“In the first place, I have only five guineas in my pocket; and in the second, they are very much at your service.” -Lord Peterborough 140.“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”-Sandra Day O’Connor 141.“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 142.“The only sin is mediocrity.” -Martha Graham 143.“It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.”-John, Viscount Morley 144.“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” -William Shakespeare 145.“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” -Lily Tomlin 146.“Be good. And if you can’t be good, be careful.” -American proverb 147.“She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.”-Jonathan Swift 148.“Who does now befriend himself by doing good?” -Sophocles 149.“The living need charity more than the dead.” -George Arnold 150."It is better to be a human being satisfied than a pig satisfied." -John Stuart Mills Once again, an out if you're just way too overloaded! ;-) Let me out of here! My eyes still hurt from reading too much!! 151.“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.” -Matt 5:16 152.“If ye will nourish the word yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence...it may take root in you...by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious which is sweet above all that is sweet...” -Alma 153.“Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh.” -2Cor. 7:1 154.“Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place that a seed may be planted in your heart...” -Alma 32:28 155.“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” -Psalms 119:105 156.“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.” -Kahlil Gibran 157.“Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.” -Sophocles 158.“Yes, it’s a drag, but why not put your shopping cart back in its appointed place in the parking lot?” 159.“We live very close together. so, our prime purpose in this life it to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.” -Dalai Lama 160.“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 161.“I give cookies and other food to friends during lunch if they are having a bad day.” -Carl 162.“When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.” -Alice Childress 163.“Never doubt how precious, how vitally important you are. Every moment you make a difference. so, today, appreciate yourself as a random act of kindness.” 164.“When people’s dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart. -Mencius 165.“None is so near the gods as he who shows kindness.” -Seneca 166.“Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in it’s enjoyment of life.” -Ed Hays 167.“When someone is trying to merge into your lane in traffic, let him in-and why not smile and wave while doing it!” 168.“Open the phone book and select a name at random and send that person a Christmas card.” 169.“No man giveth, but with intention of good to himself; because the gift is voluntary, and of all voluntary acts the object is to every man his own good.” -Thomas Hobbes 170.“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” -William Shakespeare 171.“Give another car your parking spot.” 172.“Make an effort to spend time with(or write to) a relative whom you don’t often see.” 173.“Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.” 174.“To be kind to others, one must first learn to be kind to oneself.” -Anonymous 175.“On a piece of paper; write the words physical, emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and relational. Make a thank-you card for all the people, places, or things that have affected you in those dimensions." 176."The reward for a thing well done is to have done it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson 177."Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength." 178."It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -W. Somerset Maugham 179."We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words." -Goethe 180."This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow." -Margaret Lindsey 181."A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul." -Phillip Moffitt 182."Be good to yourself, be excellent to others, and do everything with love." -John Wolf 183."We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdock 184."Friends are born, not made." -Henry Adams 185."I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to." -Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings 186."If you pray fro rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." 187."Queen's never make bargains." -Lewis Carroll 188."If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -Thoreau 189."The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." -Pierre Corneille 190."Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days and hours." -Bartes 191."It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invilsible to the eye." -Antoine de saint Exupery 192."The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson 193."Where children are, there is the golden age." -Novalis 194."Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Einstein 195."May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door." 196."All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother." -Abraham Lincoln 197."A mother's heart is a child's classroom." -Henry Ward Beecher 198."Do good. Avoid evil." 199."The love of learning the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity or books." -Longfellow 200."The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley More quotes here. If you have any quotations you'd like me to add or any comments or questions please drop me a line at sunshineone@hotmail.com About Me | Words of Wisdom | Book Nook | My Linx | Beautiful Barbies | Animated Animals | Sailor Moon | Chicken Soup | Webrings | Index PleaseSign My Guestbook View My Guestbook This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page
1."Count these among your blessings... the friendly morning sky, the peaceful night, and all the colors, beauties, and splendors of a living earth." ED CUNNINGHAM
2."Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." KAREN RAVN
3."If you open your heart to beauty, you’ll find it In all of the kind, caring deeds people do... If you open your life to beauty, you’ll show it, And others will find it reflected in you." K. RAVN
4.“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays through and around us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” -Alan Chadwick
5.“You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” -Buffy Sainte-Marie
6.“Go slowly, breathe, and smile.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
7.“The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
8.“We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.” -Suzuki Roshi
9.“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”-Henry David Thoreau
10.“Life is a cup to be filled, not drained.” -Anonymous
11.“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.” -Julia Carney
12.“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon
13.“I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now...for I shall not pass this way again.” -Etienne De Grellet
14.“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” -Chief Seattle
15.“Those who can most truly be accounted brave, are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.” -Pericles
16."It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."-Cicero
17."Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness."-Montaigne
18."One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."-Malayan proverb
19."I have had that curiously symbolical and reassuring pleasure, of being entertained with overflowing and simple kindness by a family of totally unknown people-an adventure which always brings home to me the goodwill of the world."-A.C. Benson
20."It is because a man feels that he is and ought to be free, that he hates to yield to force, but gives way easily to kindness."-Jean Guilbert
21."We can do no great things-only small things with great love."-Mother Teresa
22."It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can." -Sydney Smith
23."To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest."-Zora Neale Hurston
24."Get your children to go through their toys and put aside those they want to donate to children who are less fortunate."
25."How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank
26."Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."-Walter Elliott
27."Smile at the person in the car next to you or wave hello to a pedestrian in the crosswalk. It can really lift not only the other person’s spirits, but your own."
28."If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."-Pearl Bailey
29."No one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent, and not one is altogether vile. Not a single one but has at some time wept."-H.G. Wells
30."The heart has its own reasons which reason does not know."-Blaise Pascal
31."If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it." -William Arthur Ward
32."To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all those who cross our path."-Agnes Repplier
33."If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends-you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it-that’s the time to hold you tongue."-Alice Duer Miller
34."The best portions of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and love." -William Wordsworth
35."Ask an older person to tell you a story about his or her youth, such as what her favorite song was and why,or how he met his spouse."
36."I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
37."When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason has leftthem."-Willa Cather
38."The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment."-John Gay
39."My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness."-Michelangelo
40."It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."-Irish proverb
41."We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom."-Marie Von Ebner-Echenbach
42."If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."-Mary Webb
43."A kind word is like a spring day."-Russian proverb
44.“True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it.”-Charles Fox
45.“Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.”-German Proverb
46.“Nobody is kind only to one person at once, but to many persons in one.”-Frederick Faber
47.“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining form hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.”-Olive Schreiner
48.“In the quiet hours when we are alone with ourselves and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a weak moment in which we wonder...what good we are doing.” -A.A. Milne
49.“Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”-Walt Whitman
50.“Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.”-Madame Swetchine
Wow, you've read this many of my quotes? Thanks. If you want to take a break now and come back later I wouldn't blame you.
Let me out of here! My eyes hurt from reading too much!!
51.“People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.”-Bertolt Brecht
52.“The deed is all, not the glory.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
53.“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
54.“We are sometimes so occupied with being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.” -Saint Francis de Sales
55.“No joy can equal the joy of serving others.” -Sai Baba
56.“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” -Casare Pavese
57.“Joyful is the accumulation of good work.” -The Dhammapada
58.“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -Ursula K. LeGuin
59.“Take a walk, notice the gorgeousness of the day, and notice the ways you are grateful for your surroundings.”
60.“Let us be kinder to one another.” -Aldous Huxley on his deathbed
61.“Pick a bouquet of wildflowers and put it under someone’s windshield wiper.”
62.“Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.” -Zadik
63.“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.”-St. Theresa of Lisieux
64.“Sing or hum something today, in the shower, the car, or just your home, and notice how it lifts the spirits.”
65.“When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated.”-Ralph Nader
66.“It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.” -Jane Rule
67.“When you see a child, acknowledge them and send them love.”
68.“The real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.” -Tolstoy
69.“By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.” -Lao-Tse
70.“Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all wisdom of the wise.” -DuBose Heyward
71.“Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.” -Irish proverb
72.“Hold a random acts of kindness party where everyone who comes tells the stories of kindnesses in their life.”
73.“Try to acknowledge something about someone every day: their skills, their qualities, their appearance, or the impact they have on you. Also acknowledge these things in yourself.”
74.“We are all quite alike; indeed at the core we are all one, all lost-and found-in the same mysterious enterprise that is life.” -Daphne Rose Kingma
75.“Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.” -Albert Einstein
76.“The ideals which have lighted my way...have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The true subjects of human efforts-possessions, outward success, luxury-have always seemed to me contemptible.” -Albert Einstein
77.“The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men.” Sir Arthur Keith
78.“Smile at someone on your way to work, at work, or on your way home from work today.”
79.“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
80.“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.” -William Faulkner
81.“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
82.“Whatsoever, after due examination an analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” -Buddha
83.“Organize some friends, family, or neighbors to help repair of renovate something in an elderly person’s home.”
84.“There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing of the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.” -Alfred Adler
85.“Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, and kindness.” -Confucius
86.“The great, dominant, all controlling fact of this life is the innate bias of the human spirit, not toward evil, as the theologists tell us, but towards good.” -William Archer
87.“Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.”-Daphne Rose Kingma
88.“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the Prophets.” -Matthew 7:12
89."Be kind and gentle to those who are old, For kindness is dearer and than gold." -American proverb
90."The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence." -George Eliot
91."Goodness is easier to recognize than to define; only the greatest novelists can portray good people." -W.H. Auden
92."She doeth little kindnesses which most leave undone, or despise." -James Russell Lowell
93."The good is the enemy of the beast." -English proverb
94."Wherever that is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness." -Seneca
95."It is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech." -Cicero
96."The greatest transcendence a man may achieve is to be kind in infirmity."-Medieval Latin proverb
97."None can be call’d deform’d but the unkind." -William Shakespeare
98."A kindness loses its grace by being noised abroad, Who desires it to be remembered should forget it." -Pierre Corneille
99."Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse." -Kahlil Gibran
100."The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."-T.S. Eliot
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101."As ‘unkindness has no remedy at law,’ let its avoidance be with you a point of honor."-Hosea Ballou
102."When individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."-Daniel Long
103."One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy-if I may."-Robert Louis Stevenson
104."So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind, Is all the sad world needs." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
105."Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." -Unknown
106."I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind." -W.H. Davis
107."Good and evil do not befall men without reason. Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct."-Confucius
108."Bring color into your home or office with flowers, an inexpensive poster or card, or just pieces of colored paper cut from a magazine."
109."Good and bad men are each less so than they seem."-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
110."Let us not be wearing in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."-New Testament
111."Every day say at least on kind thing to everyone you talk to. This isn’t hard, and it makes you and the people you talk to feel good."-Brad, 5th grade
112."Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with." -American Proverb
113."I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have." -Rupert Brooke
114."Philosophers and clergymen are always discussing why we should be good as if anyone doubted that we ought to be." -G.M. Trevelyan
115."She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonable happy you have to be reasonably good."-Carolyn Kizer
116."The revolutionary may be surprised to discover that the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most astonishing things. To treat one’s neighbor as oneself is still the fundamental maxim for revolutions."-Freya Stark
117."Give an anonymous gift."
118.“Nature, in giving tears to man, Confessed that he had a tender heart; this is his noblest quality.” -Juvenal
119.“Spend a week just being aware of things in nature that befriend you.”
120.“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” -Publilius Syrus
121.“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
122.“The good we think that we voluntarily perform we could not help doing if we tried.” -Anonymous
123.“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
124.“Take the opportunity in conversations with friends to tell them about kindnesses you have experienced and ask about their experiences. Just talking about acts of kindness brings them alive in the world.”
125.“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”-G. K. Chesterton
126.“The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
127.“You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you’ll die to regret it.” -Harriet Doerr
128.“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.” -Charles Kingsley
129.“The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.” -Aristotle
130.“By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted-- Which Blossom in the dark.” -Emily Dickinson
131.“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”-Eric Hoffer
132.“For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.” -Sophocles
133.“I learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” -Kahlil Gibran
134.“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop
135.“As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”James Boswell
136.“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue....[They are] gravity, generosity or soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”-Confucius
137.“For kindness is a Mine, when great and true, Of Nobler Ore than even Indians knew; ‘Tis all that Mortals can on Heav’n bestow, And all that Heav’n can value here below.” -Katherine Fowler Philips
138.“Kindness and generosity...form the true morality of human actions.”-Germaine de Staël
139.“In the first place, I have only five guineas in my pocket; and in the second, they are very much at your service.” -Lord Peterborough
140.“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”-Sandra Day O’Connor
141.“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
142.“The only sin is mediocrity.” -Martha Graham
143.“It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.”-John, Viscount Morley
144.“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” -William Shakespeare
145.“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” -Lily Tomlin
146.“Be good. And if you can’t be good, be careful.” -American proverb
147.“She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.”-Jonathan Swift
148.“Who does now befriend himself by doing good?” -Sophocles
149.“The living need charity more than the dead.” -George Arnold
150."It is better to be a human being satisfied than a pig satisfied." -John Stuart Mills
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151.“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.” -Matt 5:16
152.“If ye will nourish the word yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence...it may take root in you...by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious which is sweet above all that is sweet...” -Alma
153.“Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh.” -2Cor. 7:1
154.“Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place that a seed may be planted in your heart...” -Alma 32:28
155.“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” -Psalms 119:105
156.“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.” -Kahlil Gibran
157.“Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.” -Sophocles
158.“Yes, it’s a drag, but why not put your shopping cart back in its appointed place in the parking lot?”
159.“We live very close together. so, our prime purpose in this life it to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.” -Dalai Lama
160.“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
161.“I give cookies and other food to friends during lunch if they are having a bad day.” -Carl
162.“When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.” -Alice Childress
163.“Never doubt how precious, how vitally important you are. Every moment you make a difference. so, today, appreciate yourself as a random act of kindness.”
164.“When people’s dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart. -Mencius
165.“None is so near the gods as he who shows kindness.” -Seneca
166.“Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in it’s enjoyment of life.” -Ed Hays
167.“When someone is trying to merge into your lane in traffic, let him in-and why not smile and wave while doing it!”
168.“Open the phone book and select a name at random and send that person a Christmas card.”
169.“No man giveth, but with intention of good to himself; because the gift is voluntary, and of all voluntary acts the object is to every man his own good.” -Thomas Hobbes
170.“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” -William Shakespeare
171.“Give another car your parking spot.”
172.“Make an effort to spend time with(or write to) a relative whom you don’t often see.”
173.“Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
174.“To be kind to others, one must first learn to be kind to oneself.” -Anonymous
175.“On a piece of paper; write the words physical, emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and relational. Make a thank-you card for all the people, places, or things that have affected you in those dimensions."
176."The reward for a thing well done is to have done it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
177."Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength."
178."It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -W. Somerset Maugham
179."We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words." -Goethe
180."This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow." -Margaret Lindsey
181."A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul." -Phillip Moffitt
182."Be good to yourself, be excellent to others, and do everything with love." -John Wolf
183."We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdock
184."Friends are born, not made." -Henry Adams
185."I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to." -Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings
186."If you pray fro rain, be prepared to deal with some mud."
187."Queen's never make bargains." -Lewis Carroll
188."If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." -Thoreau
189."The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." -Pierre Corneille
190."Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days and hours." -Bartes
191."It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invilsible to the eye." -Antoine de saint Exupery
192."The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
193."Where children are, there is the golden age." -Novalis
194."Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Einstein
195."May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door."
196."All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother." -Abraham Lincoln
197."A mother's heart is a child's classroom." -Henry Ward Beecher
198."Do good. Avoid evil."
199."The love of learning the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity or books." -Longfellow
200."The great end of life is not knowledge but action." -Thomas Henry Huxley
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