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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
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
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 highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown
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 starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It is the cornerstone of human connection.
Unknown
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
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.
Anonymous
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
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.
Kahlil Gibran
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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 is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Altruism is the foundation of inner peace.
Dalai Lama
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
We are not separate from each other, and so we cannot harm or benefit another without also harming or benefiting ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.
Dalai Lama
We are all in this together and we are all connected.
Brené Brown
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 13:4
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.
Pema Chödrön
The greatest gift you can give someone is your patience and understanding.
Anonymous
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
Love is not just about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar J. Abasolo
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
G.K. Chesterton
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Arthur Helps
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
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
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 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 important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
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 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
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
When we truly understand someone, we can't help but love them.
Anonymous
Compassion is the understanding that there is no separation between us.
Henepola Gunaratana
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
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
Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.
Steve Maraboli
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
Love is the absence of judgment.
Dalai Lama
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
Love is not something you go out and look for. Love finds you, and when it does, ready or not, it'll be the best thing to ever happen to you.
Anonymous
Love is not about changing someone. It's about accepting them for who they are.
Anonymous
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings
Love is the only force capable of turning an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
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 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 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 all good qualities.
Dalai Lama
The best way to find happiness is to help others find theirs.
Unknown
The best way to serve others is to love them unconditionally and without reservation.
Debasish Mridha
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama XIV
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 own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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