A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing read more

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to read more

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our read more

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
[Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos
hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . read more

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.