Favorite Quotations ~  Kindness, 4 Short Course in Kindness

"Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction." ~ Ambrose Bierce

The kindness we extend to others in our hour of weakness will return to us at the time we most need. ~ Harriet Johns

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 it that it makes them kind themselves. ~ Amelia Earhart, IBD, 12/29/04

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. ~ Park Godwin

In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ~ Sally Koch

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. ~ Annie Lennox, Guideposts, 1/05

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do the thing you believe in. Do the best you can in the place where you are and be kind. ~ Scott Nearing

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