Monday, February 6, 2012

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.


My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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.
- Leo Buscaglia
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Chinese proverb
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
From caring comes courage.
- Lao Tzu
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke

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