~KINDNESS~

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.  Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." ~Mother Teresa

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." ~John Wooden

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." ~John Andrew Holmes

"When a man wishes to give anything, let him give the best he has got." ~Brigham Young

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." ~James Matthew Barrie

"If you can't return a favor, pass it on." ~Louis Brown

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

"Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt." ~Kim Hubbard

"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it." ~Christine M. Huppert

"Human nature constitutes a treaty in itself, and human beings are far more effectively united by kindness than by contracts, by feelings than by words." ~Thomas More, Utopia

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." ~Stephen Vincent Benet

"Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of pronlonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well." ~Miguel De Unamuno