Kindness has been written about by many people all over the world. Here are just a few quotes that inspire me:

• Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart – Proverbs 3:3
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless – Mother Teresa
• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see – Mark Twain
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted – Aesop (620 BC – 560 BC), The Lion and the Mouse
• What is desirable in a man is his kindness, And it is better to be a poor man than a liar – Proverbs 19:22
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible – Albert Einstein
• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses – Confucius
• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness – Confucius
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion -The Dalai Lama
• Because judgment without kindness will be shown to anyone who has not been kind. Kindness triumphs over judgment! – James 2:13
• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness – William Shakespeare (“Macbeth”, Act 1 scene 5)
• That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love – William Wordsworth
• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much – Blaise Pascal:
• A fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them – Albert Einstein
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness – Galatians 5:22
• It is kind to be able to bear conflict, in oneself and others; it is kind, to oneself and others, to forgo magic and sentimentality for reality. It is kind to see individuals as they are, rather than how we might want them to be; it is kind to care for people just as we find them. This version of kindness accommodates ambivalence; it makes room for, and thereby transcends, frustration and hatred. It is the poet’s (or the novelist’s) version – Tolstoy, rather than Dr. Phil. In short, it’s human – Phillips & Taylor
• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit – Nelson Henderson
• There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life: reciprocity – Confucius
• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace – Dalai Lama
• You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit – Job 10:12
• The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard- Henry David Thoreau