One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best way to help them feel better is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just you as you.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that – warm things, kind things, sweet things – help and comfort and laughter – and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average – though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.