Thoughts on Kindness

I have gathered a few thoughts on kindness because it seems that kindness is the one thing that will save us and the planet. It seems such a simple concept, yet itt requires radical re-invention of our thoughts and habits and relationships.

 

You are the Center of Kindness.

 

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” 
― Dalai Lama XIV

 

“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.”
― Henry James

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao Tzu

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”
― Jesse Jackson

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223]”― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Wendy Mass

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
― Francis of Assisi

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

– Helen Keller