#kindness

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fondness #kindness #our #power

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#express #feeling #following #gratitude #impulse

...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then. ↗

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#life #beauty

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#done #kindness #more #obliged #ready

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs. ↗

— James McGreevey

#beliefs #citizens #civility #common #common ground

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#believer #big #big believer #how #i

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#guilt #kindness #retribution #guilt

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#kindness

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#kindness #cruelty