Random Acts of Kindness

Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love … kindness is goodwill, kindness says “I want you to be happy.” Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

—Randolph Ray

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

—Sir James M. Barrie

When strangers start acting like neighbors … communities are reinvigorated.

—Ralph Nader

alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

—Kahlil Gibran

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

—Mother Teresa

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

—Kahlil Gibran

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

—St. Thérèsa of Lisieux

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or like a stream which dries up when it doesn't rain. But there is a love that is like a mighty spring gushing up out of the earth; it keeps flowing forever, and is inexhaustible.

—Isaac of Nineveh

When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say “my,” I have lost my power. Power is not my power…. It is only gainable as part of a larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself—which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed…. It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible.

—Glenda Taylor