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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
Sep 19, 2025
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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.
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.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
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.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
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. Pass it on.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
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.
Do your little bit of good where you are.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
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