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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
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
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 light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
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
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 only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
Brené Brown
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
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
The more you understand, the less you judge.
Anonymous
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
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 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 answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and be free from the past.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
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
Love is not just a verb. It's you looking in the mirror.
Kendrick Lamar
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
The only way to change the world is to change the story.
Michael Margolis
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.
Robin Sharma
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
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear.
Nadine Gordimer
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph G. Nichols
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menniger
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Malcom Forbes
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Timothy Keller
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The more we can remove ourselves from our own ego, the more we can understand and tolerate others.
Unknown
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 in this together and we are going to get through this together.
Mike DeWine
We are not separate from each other, and when we realize this, we will stop harming others and ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
Love is the absence of judgment.
Dalai Lama XIV
Love is the ability to recognize and appreciate the unique perspective of another person.
Unknown
Love is not about changing someone. It's about accepting them for who they are.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of them.
Unknown
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only force capable of uniting the scattered members of humanity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is the only force capable of making the impossible possible.
Unknown
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.
Brené Brown
The only way to change the world is to make a little noise: to be vulnerable, to communicate, to reach out, to connect.
Seth Godin
Empathy is the antidote to shame. The antidote to shame is empathy.
Brené Brown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own vulnerability and authenticity.
Deepak Chopra
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is love and laughter.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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 greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
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 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 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 the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
Rumi
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
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