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A kind word can warm three months of winter.
-Japanese Proverb
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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
-English Proverb
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.
-Anon.
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Kindness begets kindness.
-Proverb
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
-Proverb
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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
-Proverb
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
-Aeschylus
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No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-Aesop
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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
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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
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It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
-W. H. Auden
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Kindness is wisdom.
-Philip James Bailey
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.
-James Barrie
The Little White Bird, 1902
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
-Anne Baxter
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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
-William John Bennett
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
-John Berger
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
-Georges Bernanos
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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians
-Bible
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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
-Frederick Buechner
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
-Robert Burns
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
-Robert Burns
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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, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.
-Henry Burton
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Books about Kindness
