Top 72 Simple Kindness Quotes
#1. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#2. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#3. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace ... and care properly for this planet we all share.
Bo Lozoff
#4. What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.
Dalai Lama
#5. Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.
Mike Yankoski
#6. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#7. Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Tony Snow
#8. The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.
Geraldine Brooks
#9. Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Elsa Maxwell
#11. Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.
Marc Parent
#13. Let us go on and see little Susan, said Margaret, drawing her companion up a grassy road-way, leading under the shadow of a forest glade. With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#14. A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#15. We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another's soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.
Molly Friedenfeld
#17. If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.
Piper Kerman
#18. Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.
Feroz Bham
#20. Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. 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.
Dalai Lama XIV
#22. Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#23. I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. My prayer for you is simple. May the power of love be with you. May kindness adorn your heart, and may simplicity find a peaceful place in your thoughts and actions.
Debasish Mridha
#25. See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#26. You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
Chris Abani
#27. You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
Anne Frank
#28. Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
Bryant McGill
#29. In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.
Janey Colbourne
#31. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#32. You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.
Jennifer Skiff
#33. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#34. Serve to goodness and to nothing else, to no other power! And how can you do this? Very simple: Do kindness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.
Suzanne Vega
#36. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Mary Pipher
#37. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
Roald Dahl
#39. If you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
R.J. Palacio
#41. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
Joe J. Christensen
#42. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#43. Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close
Dalia Mogahed
#44. Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. My battle weapons in life are very simple; my weapons are love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.
Donna Fargo
#47. The warmth of the bourbon still glowed deep within her, helping her find her center. How could something so simple have brought her so much relief? But Safia sensed it wasn't truly the alcohol so much as the kindness. She had forgotten what that was like. It had been too long. Not since ... not
James Rollins
#48. A simple touch of kindness can heal a wound of the soul which no medicine can touch.
Debasish Mridha
#49. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#50. Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
Andie MacDowell
#51. A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver
Kristen J. Duca
#52. Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.
Katie Piper
#53. I wish the Lord would just knock me over with kindness and goodness and simple purity, because I don't seem to be getting the knack of it on my own.
Nancy E. Turner
#54. Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.
Aeriel Miranda
#55. (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
J.M. Coetzee
#56. Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang
#57. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#58. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Peace begins in the mind with a simple thought of love and kindness for all.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.
Lloyd D. Newell
#63. We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
John Ortberg
#64. Be nice. Be good. Be happy.
If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
#66. Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#67. Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.
Alison Malee
#68. The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.
Marcus Aurelius
#69. It isn't as simple as a fascination of the flesh. It's everything about her that I love: her intelligence, her ambition, her talent, her sense of humor, her dependability, her kindness.
Kristen Zimmer
#70. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. You can change a life with a simple touch of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.
Mary Burchell
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