“Imagine that. Feel it. It’s nice to make frustrating older people happy for a second. Let’s hope everyone still thinks so when we’re old and frustrating.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Whatever softness I had was reserved for animals, whose suffering I could alleviate in small ways.”— Bethany Groff Dorau, nytimes.com
“This is for all the teachers and students out there. Life can hit hard, and we all need some grace.”— Brandon Holeman, tiktok.com
“If you see someone who is struggling to make friends or being bullied because he/she doesn’t have many friends or because they are shy or not as pretty or not dressed in the most ‘in’ clothes—PLEASE step up. Say hi or at least smile at them in the hallway. You never know what that person might be fa…”— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com
“You can't teach kindness.”— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com
“Because of what I looked like or because there's a certain way that your body is supposed to be, and I'm not that. And that maybe if I was just sweet enough and nice enough and easy-going enough with any guy, that would be enough for someone.”— Craig DiGregorio, Annie, Aidy Bryant, imdb.com
“While I was homeless there were people who were obviously trying to prey on me. But at the same time there were people who were nice for no reason.”— Jewel, amazon.com
“So ask yourself this: Do you deserve forgiveness? Do you deserve love?”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“I do believe in the kindness and the goodness and the compassion and the empathy of the American people.…I don’t have a panacea of how to get there, but I know one thing: The current state of affairs, the crisis in our democracy is not who we are, and I know we’re better than this.”— Howard Schultz, ca.sports.yahoo.com
“after Nazim Hikmet, for & after Rassan At the Detroit Metro Airport with the turtle-hours to spare between now & my flight, there is such a thing as the kindness of the conveyor belt who lends me its slow, strange mollusk foot as I stand quiet, exhausted, having been alone in my bed for days now, sl…”— Aracelis Girmay, apmpodcasts.org
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”— Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, Blanche DuBois, Vivien Leigh, imdb.com
“When there is kindness, there is goodness. When there is goodness, there is magic.”— Chris Weitz, Cinderella's Mother, Hayley Atwell, imdb.com
“I have to tell you a secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer. Have courage and be kind.”— Chris Weitz, Cinderella's Mother, Hayley Atwell, imdb.com
“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.”— Aristotle, sacred-texts.com
“Thanksgiving provides a formal context in which to consider the instances of kindness that have enlightened our lives, for moments of grace that have gotten us through when all seemed lost. These are fine and sentimental subjects for contemplation.”— Jon Carroll, sfgate.com
“Always remember that something that may seem so small to you could make a world of difference to somebody else.”— Jodi Taylor, coveteur.com