I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling


Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama


There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown


A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca


A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb


Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel


If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain


Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver