“I like when people are polite and kind to other people. I just think life is so hard, why make it harder?”— Paul Rudd, nytimes.com
“Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the ability to affect the three feet around them by behaving more ethically, honestly, and compassionately toward those they meet. Just picture it: If more peo…”— Sharon Salzberg, onbeing.org
“You don't have to move mountains. You'll change the world simply by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.”— Anita Krizzan, facebook.com
“Learning that trying to do a little bit of good in the world will keep you through very challenging times.”— Lisa Lucas, twitter.com
“Be brave and be kind because you will always get stronger by the path you leave behind.”— Nakkiah Lui, twitter.com
“There is magic in this life. There is also a void. The magic is exponential and closes the void. Touch closes the void. Laughter closes the void. Reaching out to each other closes the void. The magic is called love.”— Mark Mallman, twitter.com
“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency. My only regret is that I wasn't born dead or not at all.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I think it's OK when people clap after a movie. They know they're not telling the people who made the movie "thank you," they're just telling each other they enjoyed the movie together. It's human and nice.”— Twitter's Good Boy, twitter.com
“As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.”— John Muir, 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.”— James Boswell, amazon.com
“Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.”— Henry Drummond, amazon.com
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.””— Henry Drummond,
“Kindness is a weapon men use to get what they want.”— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Justin Doble, The Widow, Emily Beecham, imdb.com
“Worry less, pray more. Be grateful you have breath before you use it to complain. Set a goal. Accomplish it. Help someone who can’t pay you back.”— Lecrae, twitter.com
“'It doesn’t affect you until you’re affected by it' is not how the world should work. Do something for a stranger, offer your hand to someone in need. You’ll never know when you might need it.”— Adam Alhanti, twitter.com
“People shouldn’t feel crazy for thinking that we as a society could do better. If everybody with goodness in their heart got up and did something to change the world, it would be a much better place. We just need to remember that we can do it, no matter how hard it may seem.”— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com