Thursday Thirteen: Thoughts on Kindness

Getting ready for Simply Kind Tuesdays, a new meme for Tuesdays (click here for more information), I ran across a number of quotes and thoughts about kindness.  I thought I would share them with you here.

1.  ”Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindnes causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” — Albert Schweitzer

2.  ”No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” — Amelia Earhart

3.  ”Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” — Blaise Pascal

4.  ”The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”  – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5.  ”Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” — Eric Hoffer

6.  ”Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” — Goethe

7.  ”Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”  – Henry James

 8.   “Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking creates profundity.  Kindness in giving creates love.”  – Lao Tsu

9.  ”Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”  – Mother Theresa

10.  ”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  – Philo

11.  ”Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.”  Talmud

12.  ”Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” Theodore Rubin

13.  ”The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life”  William Wordsworth

For more information on the new meme, Simply Kind Tuesdays, click here.  For less talk and more kindness, check out the Everyday Kindness challenge.

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