"Spread Your Kindness" "Live as though every positive thing you do will start a chain reaction, the culmination of which is so beneficial you cannot even imagine. Live as though even the smallest kindness, passed along from one person to another, can change the world for the better. Live as though every good thing you do is multiplied many times over before surely and eventually returning to you. For that is indeed the way life can work. You have a far greater influence than it may seem over people and events, even those far removed from you. Because the way you act toward others gets passed along in ever-increasing numbers. Think about how you do it yourself. If someone has been kind and considerate to you, you're far more likely to act with kindness toward others, and many of them will do the same. If, in one hour you were to spread kindness to just three people, and each of them did the same, and the process continued to repeat itself, the results would be astounding. It would take less than 24 hours for that kindness to be spread to every person in the world. Spread your kindness and consideration freely and respectfully to others. And the positive benefits will go farther than you can possibly imagine." ~ Ralph Marston

   ...A few thoughts on Kindness...

"Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965);
French philosopher, physician

I'd be dishonoring God if I didn't believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.
 Nick Vujicic

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being,
let me do it now,
and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Epictetus (2nd century)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. 
Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness;
it usually comes back to you.
Anonymous

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
The Talmud

 

We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg

Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles (447 BC)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
William John Bennett

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.
Barbara DeAngelis

"Love is patient,Love is kind..."
I Corinthians 13:4