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Quotes About Connection

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
~ David Levithan
Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
~ Thomas Chalmers
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
~ Harold S. Kushner
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
~ Aldous Huxley
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Everyone responds to kindness.
~ Richard Gere
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
~ William Feather
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
~ Max Irons
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
~ Josh Radnor
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
~ Pema Chodron
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
~ Don Van Vliet
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.
~ Joe Rogan
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.
~ Harold S. Kushner
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
~ George MacDonald
Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?
~ Dalai Lama
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.
~ Stephen King, 11/22/63
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
~ Debbie Macomber
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
~ Tara Brach
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
~ David Mitchell
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.
~ Isaac of Nineveh