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Inspiring Quotes ... about Sharing the Cup of Kindness
Here are a few inspirational quotes about the virtue of kindness ... along with a few ideas for how to cultivate and share it. These may help you understand how to have the cup of human kindness start flowing into your life ...
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Rousseau
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- Sophocles
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.- William Wordsworth
Critical Tasks
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
You are sought after if you reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
- unknown
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.
- Washington Irving
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.
- Mark Ortman
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Challenges
Wherever there is a human being there is a chance for a kindness.
- Seneca
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
- Publilius Syrus
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
- Dawna Markova
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
- Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Practicing Kindness
My religion is very simple - my religion is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
- William John Bennet
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business life.
- Samuel Johnson
Movie Quotes
Mom said everyone can be selfish, sometimes. But then again, she also said its always better to give them the benefit of the doubt ... No one really starts out kind. All we know how to do at first is WANT. We want food, we want attention ...Its just natural survival instinct, I guess ... But kindness is something that we all have to learn as we go. It's something that grows and develops slowly over time ... The same way our bodies do ... And so, kis.nde.000ss can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes {same as pasta} ...”True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something e have to work at. We have to mold it, and shape it within ourselves. Not everyone has it. But, I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there ....”
Ever since Mom told me that, I've always tried to look for the good in everyone. It's hard sometimes. But it's worth it, because I get to see all the different shapes kindness can take ...
For example, I think yours is sort of like a candle ... Whenever you're around, you always seem to bring just a little bit more light into the room. Everything's brighter and it just makes me want to smile.
- Fruits Basket (Anime movie quote)
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