“So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Honesty amounts to cruelty if it is not delivered with loving kindness. Keep this in mind the next time you are “just being honest.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. I think Charles Dickens got it quite right.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is still the best antidote.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“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.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“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.”
“Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I could really use someone else's smile today.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is a girl's best friend.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Oh so simple, and yet oh so mighty are acts of human kindness.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“While interacting with you, a person learns a great deal about himself. Show him all the good he possesses. That is what matters most.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If we want well-being for all people, then we must share what we have with our neighbors, and they must share with their neighbors, and every recipient of kindness and charity must continue to share until all—worldwide—are partakers and benefactors of true generosity. Human well-being does not exist in consort with selfishness.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“How much kindness should I show?
Enough to set all hearts aglow.
Just how patient must I be?
Enough to calm the stormy sea.
How much love doth God require?
Enough to lift the heavens higher.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Every day grants us opportunities to do good. Take advantage of them. Do good. Be happy.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Give away kindness. Happiness will repay you.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Life is determined to introduce you to your true self. Be kind.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness should be at the core of one’s character. Be kind purely because it is who you are.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Those sweet souls who speak kind words when they could rightly criticize are the most influential beings in all the world.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Always play your best cards—Love and Kindness. They trump every other card in the deck.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Have I told you I love you lately?'
'Yes, my dear, when you opened my door, when you touched my cheek, when you listened to my stories, and when you warmed my drink—I heard you say it in every sweet-and-easy gesture.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“When you look in the mirror, smile at your own kindness.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“We are more likely to influence people if we are willing to minster with kindness and patience to their needs.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Believing in yourself is enough, but it sure is nice when another's kind words of encouragement kiss your ear. There is genuine strength in verbal expressions of support.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I was through arguing. My real concern was with Gavin. Lifting my eyes I considered his face—perfectly rounded cheeks, a confident chin, big brown eyes balanced evenly over a gently sloped nose, all framed by a mess of dark curls. My heart sank at his beauty. A boy like him would never have anything to do with a girl like me.
'Why are you here?' I asked. I knew my tone sounded dismal. It was impossible to disguise how I felt.
'Because I want to be,' he answered.
'You want to be here? Really?'
'Well, yes,' he said. His face screwed up, confused. His next words came across as defensive. 'I’m the keykeeper. I can go anywhere I wish to. You can’t stop me, Annabelle.'
'Stop you? I don’t want to stop you,' I said. 'I just thought that... I mean, I didn’t think that…' It was hard to voice my fear aloud.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Sometimes you save people with your words or with acts of kindness. Other times people save you. That’s what we were meant to do on this earth—be heroes.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Christmastime is when love and kindness shine at their brightest.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If throughout your entire life you make no fortune; travel next to nowhere; obtain a meager education; invent nothing new; are a stranger to fame; lack talent, wit, and charm—if these things are true and yet in the heart of every human who crosses your path you plant a seed of happiness, or, at the very least, you coax a smile from the saddest faces, your life will indeed be the greatest success story ever.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.”
“I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year