Someone sent this to me and it resonated for a few reasons.
Firstly, Kindness is my surname. As a result I am often asked, ‘So, are you always kind?’ to which I answer, “I try to be, but sometimes I’m human”.Secondly, I grew up with the quote: “No act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”. Whilst this framed quote mainly hung in a broken frame on the garage wall; I’ve also carried it with me for the last 20 years. I am often helping out friends with their projects, businesses idea and all sorts of other things and often it feel like more trouble than it’s worth. But then again life is kind to me. Maybe we’re too used to shopping and the exchange of goods that we expect to be paid back by the person we helped rather than by life itself.The third reason I like these quotes and the reason I wish to share them is that they are true and convey and important message. The world needs to give kindness more importance, consideration and time. And as a Kindness I too could do with some of that!Kindness Quotes:
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire:
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness.
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.
