When kindness falls like rain, it washes me away.
Song: Counting Crows - “Anna Begins”
If there is no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there is. What we do, now, today. …If there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.
TV: Angel
You have not lived a perfect day unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Book: Cannery Row
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays—let them overtake me unexpectedly—waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why this is Christmas Day!”
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.
Perhaps the worth of any lifetime is measured more in kindness than in competency.
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.