"Be kind. It is hardly ever the wrong thing to do."
Author:

"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."
Author:Les Brown (b. 1945), author, motivational speaker

"Kindness transcends all. The most hardened by committing a simple act of kindness have changed for ever. It fills the donor with feelings of compassion and then reinforces to the receiver the all transcendental nature of kindness."
Author:Unknown

""Everyday is only as good as the good we can see and believe in ourselves and others." By doing kind acts it helps you to see good in yourself and bring the good out in others."
Author:Unknown

"Children are like flowers, let them bloom by giving them your warm smiles, your gentle words and your air of confidence. You'll be amazed at your own garden."
Author:Unknown

""Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.""
Author:

"Send a smile, Give a hug, All day long you will be loved!"
Author:Stephanie Geiger

""Never doubt that small group of committed people can CHANGE THE WORLD,INDEED IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT EVER HAS.""
Author:Margaret Mead (1901-1978), cultural anthropologist

"Be forever sailing toward the island in your mind's eye and remember it's the trip that counts not the getting there. * * * Leave the files on the desk. Leave the dishes in the sink. There's better things to do. The circus is in town. * * * You are the changing of that which is everlastingly the same. You are the smallest of the small without which the whole would not be complete. * * * The quickest way to get rid of a headache is to drop a sledge hammer on your foot. * * * A storm was raging with lightning and thunder. There wasn't a tree that I could get under. I shouted to God "Please do something!" And God answered: "It is DONE!" * * * Jay Frankston "
Author:Jay Frankston

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Author:Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is awesome!"
Author:kent and dylan

"At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how kind you are to other people. Everything else is secondary."
Author:Anna McBee

"Love is always there whether you see it or not. You can feel it!"
Author:JvM

"True kindness consists not in deciding what type of help a person needs from you, but asking him what you can do to assist him."
Author:Elizabeth J.

""Unconditional love will effortlessly melt rock.""
Author:Hank

"''NO MATTER HOW SEVERELY MULTIPLE-HANDICAPPED A BODY IS, AS LONG AS THE HEART BEATS,WE HAVE A DUTY TO RESPECT AND SERVED THIS LIFE FOR LIFE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT WE RECIEVE""
Author:Mama Anne

"Every smile is a direct achievment."
Author:

"May I borrow a smile? I promise to give it back!"
Author:Paula L. Peterson

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. "
Author:Leo Rosten (1908-1997), teacher, humorist

"TAKE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN DEEP BREATHS, DON’T BE STRANGLED BY THAT VERY THING THAT GIVES YOU AN OPPURTUNITY TO BE GREAT. Life is what you make it."
Author:Steve Kaplan

""I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.""
Author:Stephen Grellet (1773-1855), French-born Quaker Minister

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
Author:Perciles

""From what we get we make a living. From what we give we make a life.""
Author:Blake Beattie

"Like a lump of clay in the hands of the creator, we are forever being molded by life's experiences."
Author:Feyisara Aladese

"When I plant a garden I find hope for tomorrow."
Author:Lynn Thomason

"Life is what you make it. Take every opportunity to support someone. You will never know when a person will need to borrow your ears to hear,or your heart to listen."
Author:Ann Henry

""Heart and soul make a person, the other things are just details.""
Author:dippie1

""Love is putting someone else's needs before your own.""
Author:S. King

"Love (and kindness) is that quality of giving ones' self to meet the needs of another, asking nothing in return, and doing it withoug regard to the cost."
Author:Bud Mitchell

"Love and Kindness are never wasted, they always make a difference."
Author:Ms P

"...It is more blessed to give than to receive. "
Author:Bible

""A farmer who toils the soil with his laborers, reaps the richest harvest.""
Author:Mama Anne

""Often we say we don't understand them. The truth is we don't understand ourselves.""
Author:Mama Anne

"Earthly reward is only temporary, Spiritual reward is eternal."
Author:Mama Anne

"No matter what your critics say, as long as you know that you have given of your best- that's what counts."
Author:Mama

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself."
Author:A. Neilen

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. "
Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: - Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. "
Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70)

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
Author:Aesop

"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."
Author:Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
Author:Albert Einstein

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
Author:Albert Schweitzer

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."
Author:Albert Schweitzer

"Kindness is the kingpin of success in life, it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly."
Author:Andrew Chapman

"Kindness has always mattered to our father. He taught us to honor people, and he has encouraged us since before I can remember to empathize with human suffering. When I was a teenage he’d say, 'Ann, go do something that helps people. Do something of service. It will always make you feel good about your life.'"
Author:Ann Curry, news anchor

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world."
Author:Anne Frank

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"If anyone is in need, just lend a hand and help them out."
Author:Anonymous 6th Grader, RAK Member

"Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it."
Author:Arabian Proverb

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Author:Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values, including kindness.]"
Author:Aristotle

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."
Author:Sir Arthur Helps

"Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you."
Author:Audray Landrum

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
Author:Audrey Hepburn, when asked about her beauty secrets

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference."
Author:Barbara DeAngelis

"[I have learned] about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder."
Author:Barbra Streisand

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Author:Benjamin Franklin

"Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!"
Author:Betty, Community Organizer, WA

"Random Acts of Kindness is the most exciting thing I've ever done. It has changed my life. People are so receptive. It just grows and grows!"
Author:Betty, Community Organizer, WA

"Give to another human being without the expectation of a return."
Author:Bill Bradley

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
Author:Blaise Pascal

"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
Author:Blaise Pascal

"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a “soft issue,” or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas — kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share."
Author:Bo Lozoff

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Author:Bonnie Jean Wasmund

"'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?"
Author:Bow, high school student

"The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver and the receiver.

People who have received a little act of kindness so small as a grain from another, tasted it and then, even if they receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree, when they think of that little grain of kindness, the palm tree of unkindness will disappear.

So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the centre of our hearts."
Author:Br. Arockiam, kindness website builder

"There's something wonderfully rewarding in being part of an effort that does make a difference."
Author:Brian O'Connell

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."
Author:Brooke Astor

"In Compassion lies the world's true strength."
Author:Buddha

"If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path."
Author:Buddhist saying

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
Author:C. Neil Strait

"Kindness is like sugar, it makes life taste a little sweeter."
Author:Carla Yerovi - RAK member

"Random Acts of Kindness has brought more meaning into my life, and I am committed to help spread the word."
Author:Carol, State Parent Facilitator, HI

"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."
Author:Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
Author:Charles Kuralt

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
Author:Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British essayist

"Somewhere, everytime of the day, there will be someone doing a random act of kindness. The Dhali Lhama said, "My religion is very simple. My religion in kindness." I try to be as kind as I can. Everyday, it doesn't matter who it is or who they are, they are worth it. I live by that."
Author:Chelsea, high school student

"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it."
Author:Christine M. Huppert

"It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power."
Author:Cicero

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. "
Author:Confucius

"Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such."
Author:Confucius

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Author:Confucius (551-479 BC)

"It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you."
Author:Cort Flint

""True beauty emanates from a selfless heart.""
Author:Cristina Munoz

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Author:The Dalai Lama

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Author:The Dalai Lama

"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."
Author:The Dalai Lama

"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."
Author:The Dalai Lama

"The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
Author:The Dalai Lama

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
Author:Danny Thomas

"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it."
Author:Dante

"When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
Author:Dave, Community Organizer, FL

"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."
Author:Dawna Markova

"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
Author:Deepak Chopra

"The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey."
Author:Diana, Princess of Wales

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."
Author:Duguet

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
Author:Edward Lytton

"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."
Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after another."
Author:Ellen Goodman

"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do."
Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

"Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it."
Author:Epictetus (2nd century)

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
Author:Eric Hoffer

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
Author:Francis Bacon

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones."
Author:F. W. Robertson

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Author:Gandhi

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love."
Author:Gandhi

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Author:Gandhi

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it."
Author:George Alliston

"Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns."
Author:George Bengis

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
Author:George Bernard Shaw

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds."
Author:George Eliot

"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."
Author:George D. Prentice

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
Author:George Washington Carver

"There are no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness."
Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."
Author:Hadia Bejar

"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."
Author:Harold Kushner

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."
Author:Harold Kushner

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."
Author:Helen Keller

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Author:Helen Keller

"Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us."
Author:Henri-Frederic Amiel

"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."
Author:Henry Burton

"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."
Author:Henry David Thoreau

"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."
Author:Henry James

"Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.

Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds."
Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find--you're"
Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

"We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring."
Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."
Author:Hindu Proverb

"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth."
Author:Irish Proverb

"Do good and care not to whom."
Author:Italian Proverb

"Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. "
Author:Itivuttaka Sutta

"A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance...."
Author:Jack Kornfield

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
Author:James Matthew Barrie

"Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an opportunity to feel pride in who they are and in what they do."
Author:Janice, Teacher, NJ

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Author:Japanese Proverb

"It really is much easier to help people and causes than what most people seem to think. You just go out and take that first step and things start falling in place. If they don't, you change direction, but you never pull over and park!"
Author:Jason Crowe, founder (at age 11) of The Cello Cries On, Inc.

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Author:Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles."
Author:John Hall

"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding."
Author:John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can."
Author:John Wesley

"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
Author:Kahlil Gibran

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Author:Kahlil Gibran

"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."
Author:Katherine Francke

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give."
Author:Katherine Hepburn

"When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down behavior, Random Acts of Kindness works beautifully."
Author:Kathy, Teacher, CA

"There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."
Author:Lady Borton

"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love."
Author:Lao-Tzu

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.
    But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
    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 a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."
Author:Leo Buscaglia

"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."
Author:Leo Buscaglia

"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot."
Author:Leroy Jack Syrop

"A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation. "
Author:Lin Hsiu Nei

"Kindness is free, so why not give some out?"
Author:Lisandra Piercey (13), RAK member

"It's only me, but I can change a life."
Author:Liz, high school student

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind."
Author:Malaysian Proverb

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
Author:Marcus Aurelius

"Appreciation can make a day - even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
Author:Margaret Cousins

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Author:Margaret Mead

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Author:Marian Wright-Edelman

"Change the world one act of kindness at a time. Remember, our kindness is our power!"
Author:Maribel - RAK Kindness Coordinator

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
Author:Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Author:Mark Twain

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?""
Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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."
Author:Maya Angelou

"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."
Author:Mohammed

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway."
Author:Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Author:Mother Teresa

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
Author:Mother Teresa

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
Author:Mother Teresa

"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
Author:Mother Teresa

"Generosity: Give it. Got it? Good!"
Author:Ms. Sommer's Scholars 2006-2007

"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
Author:Nonpareil

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most."
Author:Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist

"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."
Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

"Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a "Hey, look what we did!" feeling."
Author:Patrick, Teacher, PA

"It has taken a long time for me to learn to open my heart to kindness, but the journey was well worth it."
Author:Paula S., RAK Member

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
Author:Pema Chodron

"After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less gossip, more openness and honesty."
Author:Peter, Teacher, NM

"Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a direct connection between their deeds and the reactions of others."
Author:Peter, Teacher, NM

"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Author:Plato

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Author:Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
Author:Publilius Syrus

"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.

If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
Author:R. Foreman

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help."
Author:Ram Dass

"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy."
Author:Randolph Ray

"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
Author:Richard Dehmel

"Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips."
Author:Richard F. Schubert

"I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the foundation of what a safe community is based on."
Author:Rita, Education Administrator, CO

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
Author:Robert Kennedy

"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness."
Author:S. Cohen

"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
Author:S. H. Simmons

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Author:Sally Koch

"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Author:Samuel Johnson

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Author:Samuel Johnson

"Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate."
Author:Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93

"Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' — that reaching out to them in a friendly way — could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.' I live by that."
Author:Sara, high school student

"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
Author:Sathya Sai Baba

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Author:Scott Adams

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
Author:Seneca, philosopher (4 BC)

"In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free to ask questions."
Author:Sherry, Teacher, MS

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
Author:Sophocles (447 BC)

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
Author:Sophocles

"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
Author:St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader

"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
Author:Stephen Jay Gould

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
Author:Stephen Grellet, Quaker missionary

"I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result."
Author:Sting

"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."
Author:The Talmud

"Kindness is a tool that everyone possesses but some choose to leave it in their tool box. Take it out and use it today."
Author:Teresa A. Vitelli, RAK Member

"Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit."
Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities — those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness."
Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
Author:Thomas Jefferson

"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."
Author:Tyron Edwards

"We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness."
Author:Unknown

"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Author:Unknown

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
Author:Unknown

"Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code."
Author:Unknown

"Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how."
Author:Unknown

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are."
Author:Unknown

"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
Author:Unknown

"Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive."
Author:Unknown

"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."
Author:Unknown

"Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness."
Author:Unknown

"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. "
Author:Unknown

"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong."
Author:Unknown

"Kindness comes from different directions... kindness comes to you, through you and from you. It's just a matter of when you want to start!"
Author:Vangie Fuentes, RAK member

"There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock."
Author:Warren G. Harding

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Author:Washington Irving

"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
Author:Whoopi Goldberg

"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire."
Author:Whoopi Goldberg

"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
Author:William John Bennett

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
Author:William Shakespeare

"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. "
Author:William Shakespeare

"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
Author:William Wordsworth

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Author:Winston Churchill

"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways."
Author:Zadik