Kindness Quotes to Live Your Life By

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1. “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai Lama

2. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer

3. “Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.” – Evelyn Underhill

4. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams

6. “Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.” – Grantland Rice

7. “The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.” – Sarah Fielding

8. “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” – Samuel Johnson

9. “A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” – Saint Basil

10. “Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.” – Joseph Joubert

11. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

12. “Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.” – Washington Irving

13. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

14. “Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

15. “Kindness is wisdom.” – Philip James Bailey

16. “Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.” – Mencius

17. “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.” – Pearl S. Buck

18. “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” – Annie Lennox

19. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato