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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 compassion.
Debasish Mridha
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Unknown
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the path; love is the destination.
Bryant McGill
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the starting point for a much deeper experience than sympathy. Sympathy is just acknowledging someone else's pain. Empathy is feeling it in a way that lets that person know they're not alone.
Brene Brown
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brene Brown
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most important thing in life is to love and be loved.
St. John Bosco
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the highest form of love. It is when we let go of our own hurt and anger and reach out to the other person.
Unknown
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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
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
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
The root of joy is gratefulness.
David Steindl-Rast
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
The greatest joy in life is the joy of giving.
Tony Robbins
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Wayne Dyer
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
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
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
The only way to change the world is to use our hearts, as well as our heads.
Linda Ellerbee
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
We are all in this together and we are all connected.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to find happiness is to give it to others.
Unknown
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
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 is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.
Esther Hicks
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
Happiness is not something you find, it's something you create.
Unknown
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