The more sympathy you give, the less you need. – Malcolm S. Forbes
Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag. – Ram Dass
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. – Kenneth McFarland
To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com
Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
When the heart is heavy cheerful words can carry it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
A kind word can warm three months of winter. – Japanese Proverb
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind. – English Proverb
Kindness begets kindness. – Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind. – Proverb
Kind words are worth much and they cost little. – Proverb
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. – Aeschylus
No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way. – Robert Alan
The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanitys a circle in deed. – Robert Alan
It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. – W. H. Auden
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie
