No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
— Charles Dickens
Generosity
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
I haven't made my point yet, which is that it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way — otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contrary the Christian danger.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kindness
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Truth
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.