“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm…[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people’s pain because I can love even after a…”— Daul Kim, quotemadness.com
“I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“I’ll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it’s inconvenient. Sometimes you’ve got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you’ve got to give until it hurts.”— Jonathan Evison, amazon.com
“You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”— Francis Quarles, jeffwalker.wordpress.com
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and forgiving heart. Be the one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”— Marvin J. Ashton, lds.org
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, amazon.com
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com
“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“The heart is extremely fertile soil. Whatever is planted there, good or bad, will take root and grow.”— Abdul Nasir Jangda, facebook.com
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”— Desmond Tutu, huffingtonpost.co.uk
“I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”— Angela Carter, amazon.com
“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud....”— Maya Angelou, twitter.com
“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.com
“God: How do we change the world? Evan: One single act of random kindness at a time.”— Steve Oedekerk, God and Evan Baxter, Morgan Freeman and Steve Carell, amazon.com
“Do you know what really turns me on? What I find incredibly sexy? Kindness.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”— Ernest Hemingway, thelettersofernesthemingway.tumblr.com