Kindness builds resilience. Even the smallest acts of kindness can change lives. Genuine kindness often involves sacrifice. Keeping ourselves and others safe by staying at home during a pandemic, is an act of kindness. Treating ourselves with kindness and compassion while our world turns upside down is an expression of resilience.

Here are 22 of my favorite quotes on kindness. Pick one and commit it to memory, cross-stitch it, sing it, dance it, write it in your journal, and otherwise live by it.

In the comment section feel free to tell us your thoughts on kindness, your favorite quote, or a random act of kindness that you have witnessed.

 

 

• “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” -Amelia Earhart

 

• “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

 

• “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

• “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” -Princess Diana

 

• “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” -Mark Twain

 

• “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” -William Arthur Ward

 

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

 

• “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
  -Barbara de Angelis

 

• “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others: for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

 

• “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” -George Sand

 

• “My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago, and I still do.” – Maya Angelou

 

• “When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.” – Harold Kushner

 

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

 

• “Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.” – Rebecca Solnit

 

• “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.” – Og Mandino

 

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

 

• “If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.” – Ellen DeGeneres

 

• “Our days are happier when we give people a piece of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.” – Unknown Author

 

• “I realized that social media can be a powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.” – Amy Jo Martin

 

• “First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.” – Brene Brown

 

• “Do your little bit of good where you are: it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Karen Duffy

 

• “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” – Neil Gaiman

 

Be kind, sweet readers, and stay well.
Love,
Susan

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