“i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth…”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it’s always for their own personal psychological reasons.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.com
“Call me crazy, but I just ask nicely — like, really, really nicely. If my guy knows that it's important to me, I just tell him how important it is and then I promise to make it up to him afterward. How could a guy say no to that?”— Irene Jay, magazine.foxnews.com
“Ask him nicely. Obviously, the first step in getting what you want is asking for it. You should never expect anyone, even your boyfriend, to just know what you want. He's not a mind reader and it's not fair to expect him to be one.”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Kindness transcends the boundaries of language, sickness, or disability. It is a universal human gift we all have to give and receive so don’t waste it.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Treat every living being, including yourself, with kindness, and the world will immediately be a better place.”— Timber Hawkeye
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“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, goodreads.com
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com