Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do - Emmanuel Swedenborg
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love - Lao Tzu
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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 - Winnie the Pooh
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind - Richard Greenberg
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters - Seneca
A good judgement is achieved through experience and experience is achieved by bad judgment. B Le Platner
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge - B. H. Liddell Hart (The Ghost of Napoleon)
...for whom kindness is just one of many strategies to secure our isolated and isolating needs? An intriguing new essay says no, finding a place for genuine altruism.