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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
The measure of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
True humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent.
Mother Teresa
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Vanna Bonta
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully cultivated and defended.
Margaret Thatcher
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Unknown
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
Patience is not a passive waiting. Patience is an active endurance of hardship. Patience is the ability to stay energized.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
Ralph Marston
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the key to living a happy and fulfilling life.
Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and compassion.
Unknown
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
Compassion is the key to happiness.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the ultimate act of strength.
Unknown
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding. It's also the greatest gift you can receive.
Anonymous
When you understand, you forgive, and when you forgive, you let go of all the resentment and pain that once consumed you.
Unknown
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
The more you understand, the less you judge.
Unknown
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The more you understand, the more compassionate you can be.
Unknown
The more you understand, the more you can appreciate the beauty in everything.
Anonymous
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it.
R.G. Risch
Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.
Byron Pulsifer
Respect is a mirror, the more you show it to other people, the more they will reflect it back.
Unknown
Respect is a choice, not a requirement. We can't force anyone to respect us, but we can choose to be respectful towards them.
Unknown
Respect is the foundation of a healthy relationship, both with ourselves and with others.
Unknown
Respect is not just about what you say, it's also about how you act. It's not just about being polite, it's about being genuine.
Unknown
Respect is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It takes a strong person to show respect to others, even when they disagree with them.
Unknown
Respect is earned, not given. It's not something that can be demanded, it's something that must be earned through our actions.
Unknown
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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