Today you…. tomorrow me.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Do not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty.

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

Be kind to others as you would like them to be to you.Encourage ,don’t discourage.

Forgive me for saying so, Your Highness,” Clarissa said slowly, “but for one as unaccustomed to good deeds as you, perhaps it would be best if you started with one on a smaller scale. Something like, I don’t know, spreading bread crumbs for birds?””Birds?” Valentina stared at Clarissa as if she had sprouted wings and...

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it’s far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.””Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There’s love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward....

You are very kind,” he said. “Very wrong, but very kind.

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She’d been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

I was helpless in trying to return people’s kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that’s for sure. Cruelty isn’t that hard to understand. I had no trouble comprehending why the phone company wanted to screw me over; they just wanted to steal some money, it was nothing...

Teach love and compassion to all. Go back to the proper understanding of every verse. Teach every young Muslim the ability to understand the meaning of friendship that has no borders while at the same time teach them to recognize who are the real UNJUST who do not deserve to be a friend.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Allow your humanity to shine.

Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It’s simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles. Friendliness finds itself surrounded by friends. Giving hugs creates hugs. Offered help is reciprocated. In contrast, if you hurt people you will find much hurt in your life. Unkindness begets unkindness....

Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven’s gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.

Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It’s these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.

If you’ve put a smile on someone’s face today, you’ve done more good than you know.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don’t imagine that it’s there; it’s there waiting to be noticed.

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don’t agree with me, just ask Mr....

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn’t understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by...

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen.

The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

I see you; I notice you; I love you.

Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.

If you start each day happy and treat people with more kindness, it determines the way you live your day. It’s all about your choices!

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person’s life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highest achievement of his soul. No, it says, life is not evil!This kindness is both senseless and wordless. It is instinctive, blind. When Christianity clothed it in the teachings of the Church Fathers,...

I don’t want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted – and not just towards cats and dogs.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

How often do we think “I am but one person, what can I do to make a difference”, but we are all in this journey together. Each act of kindness, compassion, courtesy and Love is but a stone dropped into the lake of life causing a ripple; yet when we combine them all, they meet...

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the...

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in...

Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they become the worse type of person. Unfortunately, they end up hurting themselves in the long run....

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry’s tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left....

Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.

I coudn’t be kind to him after what he’d done, couldn’t be cruel after what I had done

Ego doesn’t want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God.