Kindness

KINDNESS from Dictionary.com
noun 
1. the state or quality of being kind : kindness to animals.
2. a kind act; favor:his many kindnesses to me. a Kind deed
3. kind behavior:I will never forget your kindness.
4. friendly feeling; liking.
Synonyms
1, 3. benignity, benevolence, humanity,
 generosity, charity, sympathy,
compassion, tenderness. 2. good turn.

kind·ness
/ˈkīn(d)nəs/
noun
1. the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate synonyms:kindliness, kindheartedness, 
warmheartedness, affection, warmth, ... more 
- a kind act "it is a kindness 
I shall never forget"synonyms: kindliness, kindheartedness, warmheartedness, affection, warmth.


Kindess is so important in life.  Being kind really is a gift.
  It is a gift to you and it is a gift to whom you are being kind. 
 Kindness breeds more kindness.  Kindness can help relieve stress, it can help you feel good and can help your mental health.. It feels so good.  It is inspiring and once you perform a random act of kindness you want to do them all the time. Kindness opens the door to your blessings.  The way the universe works when you do things for another it allows your own abundance in.  God sees what you are doing and wants to bless you. Some ideas for random acts of kindness are:

1. smiling at another person
   
2. sending gently used clothes to charity
   
3. praise with words
   
4. acts of service 
5. help someone move
6. write a note
7. pray for someone
8. send greeting cards
9. babysit for a new mom or friend who needs a break
10. cook a  meal  for someone in need
11. offer change to people who are short at a register in the grocery store
12. pay for the person behind you in a drive thru
13. buy your co-workers a coffee
14. hold a door
15. donate 
16. buy a book or magazine for a friend
17. volunteer
18. mail a care package to someone
19. deliver treats to police or fire man
20. plant a tree in memory for someone

Kindness Quotes
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama


Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault


If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson


Kindness is just love with its workboots on. ~Author Unknown


A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown




Love someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author Unknown


Kind people are the best kind of people. ~Author Unknown


The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag. ~Ram Dass


Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah


There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Kenneth McFarland


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston


When you can be the sunshine in someone's life, or the warm rain, why would you be the cold north wind? ~Robert Brault


Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life


Dear Lord, may I ever refrain
      From speaking ill of others;
      May I have kindly thoughts, as well,
      For all my earthly brothers!
May I, dear Heavenly Father,
      Radiate pure love for all...
May I see good in everyone;
      May I pray for those in woe...
If I can do these things, O Lord,
      While I am here on this earth,
      I'll feel my life's not been in vain--
      That I was blessed at my birth!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Blessed at Birth" (1940s)


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie


If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis