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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Unknown
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the path; love is the destination.
Bryant McGill
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
Empathy is the first step in creating a community and taking action. It's the first step in building a better world.
Barack Obama
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce
Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.
Randall Worley
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is not only when we receive what we like but also when we receive what we don’t like.
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild
The best way to find happiness is not to search for it, but to create it through service to others.
Unknown
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent.
Mother Teresa
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta
Humility is the foundation of happiness. Its opposite, arrogance, is the cause of all misery.
Unknown
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of self-acceptance.
Unknown
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
The greatest gift you can give someone is your gratitude and compassion.
Brian Tracy
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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