#Kindness

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."

"If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness."

"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology."

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."

"We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe."

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes."

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

"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."

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."

"Kind words change the world."

"Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others."

"Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far."

"Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again."

"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham."

"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."

"Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life."

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today."

"It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts."

"With love and kindness, grow peace in your mind and then spread it with joy."