When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tzu

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

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

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

Mark Twain

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

J. M. Barrie

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

Mother Teresa, a humanitarian who left home at the age of 18 to commit herself to religious life. But disturbed by poverty around her, Mother Teresa left the comfortable convent life to help the poor, sick, and orphans while living with them.

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

Helen Steiner Rice