Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
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.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
