“The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I felt sad.
I felt cold.
I felt hurt.
I felt forsaken and lonely.
I felt doubtful and hesitant.
I felt scared and deeply worried.
I felt different, unknown, and unwelcome.
I felt empty and woefully neglected.
I felt weak and intimidated.
I felt withdrawn and shy.
I felt utterly hopeless.
Then you held my hand,
and I felt better.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly whether or not we deem them deserving.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful."
from: "The Beauty of Ugh"”
Source: I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups
“It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects your heart with sweet, satiating intensity―a simple gesture that possesses deep, personal meaning beyond what anyone realizes? You know those tender moments? That's God pressing his lips on your forehead and whispering, 'I love you.'”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Hope can be as fragile as butterfly wings, so when someone shares with you their beautiful hopes, handle them as delicately and kindly as possible. Never crush anyone’s wings.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Kind words are salve to a cankered soul; spread generously.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Gregory?” I called. I couldn’t help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a moment.
“Do you, um…” I inhaled deeply. “Do you think you’ll still want to be my friend tomorrow?” I held my breath and waited for his answer.
Although I could feel the sunshine perceptibly tingle every inch of exposed skin, the way Gregory smiled at me produced a swell of warmth unmatchable even for the sun.
“I’ll always want to be your friend, Annabelle. Do you want to be mine?”
My head nodded like mad, ecstatic, all on its own. I disappeared among the shadows again and watched my new friend until he stepped around the Hopkins’ house. Then I waited until his car drove off -- Gregory and his mother headed for home.
I was on a high like no other, but I’d not lost my grasp on reality entirely. I knew that the real test would come Monday. It was one thing to befriend an outcast in the privacy of the woods, but quite another to risk ridicule and reputation when surrounded by peers. This was true even for those with the biggest of hearts, which I now believed Gregory Hill to have.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Heaven's currency is friendship.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“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.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year