“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.”
“If you can be anything, be kind”
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
“Kindness is lighting someone else's torch with your own inner flame.”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”