/KINDNESS/COMPASSION
1. A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
2. A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon
3. A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
4. A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ~Unknown
5. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
6. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
7. Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie
8. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato
9. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino
10. Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright Edelman
11. By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill
12. Caring is a powerful business advantage. ~Scott Johnson
13. Compassion is the basis of all morality. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philospher
14. Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown
15. During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones
16. Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson
17. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
18. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling
19. I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn
20. I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. ~Pablo Casals
21. If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp
22. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
23. In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland
24. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown
25. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson
26. Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown
27. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
28. Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born. ~Donna A. Favors
29. Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. ~Adam Lindsay Gordon
30. Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims
31. Love someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author Unknown
32. Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul
33. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson
34. Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
35. Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett
36. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark
37. Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
38. The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth
39. The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown
40. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
41. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli
42. The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes
43. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
44. The power of love and caring can change the world. ~James Autry
45. The practice of compassion involves a willingness to partner with something or someone and relate to it in such a way that you can understand deeply what it is at its core. ~Dawna Markova
46. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
47. The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. ~Thomas Merton
48. There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius
49. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie
50. To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster
51. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault,
52. Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
53. 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
54. Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown
55. Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer
56. When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
57. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Woodens