Quotes About Kindness

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that 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.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Laughter is a gift everyone should open.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

Spend a moment, every day, thinking of someone to love.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.