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Sweetest Day

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. – Leo Buscaglia

Kindness is the greatest wisdom. – Author Unknown

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. – Karl Reiland

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – William Penn

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. – Charles H. Spurgeon

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown,Jr.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. – Seneca

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

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. – Chinese Proverb

Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside. – Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. – Author Unknown

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. – Author Unknown

Find a need and fill it. – Ruth Stafford Peale

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. – Lucy Larcom