Beautiful birds and words ... Thx good friend, Lyle S!

 

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 

 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear 

and the blind can see. 

~Mark Twain~ 

 

Treat everyone with politeness, 

even those who are rude to you ~ 

not because they are nice, 

but because you are. 

~Author Unknown~ 

 

Carry a heart that never hates. 

Carry a smile that never fades. 

Carry a touch that never hurts. 

~Author Unknown ~ 

 

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 

 

Be kind whenever possible. 

It is always possible. 

~ Tenzin Gyatso 

 

Never look down on anyone unless you are helping them up. 

~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 ~ 

 

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. 

It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. 

~H.. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

 

If you want others to be happy, 

practice compassion. 

If you want to be happy, 

practice compassion. 

~Author Unknown ~ 

 

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, 

it saves so much trouble. 

~Rudyard Kipling 

 

 

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. 

~Mignon McLaughlin 

 

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, 

even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. 

~Author Unknown ~ 

 

 

A fellow who does things that count, 

doesn't usually stop to count them. 

~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein 

 

 

 

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for 

all one's life - reciprocity. 

~Confucius 

Reciprocity - a situation or relationship in which two people 

or groups agree to do something similar for each other, 

to allow each other to have the same rights... 

 

 

 

Grownups know that little things matter 

and that relationships are based on respect and reciprocity. 

Margaret Carlson 

 

 

Don't wait for people to be friendly, 

show them how. 

~Author Unknown ~ 

 

The most important trip you may take in life 

is meeting people halfway. 

~Henry Boye 

 

 

When I was young, 

I admired clever people. 

Now that I am old, 

I admire kind people. 

~Abraham Joshua Heschel 

 

If we should deal out justice only in this world, who would escape? 

No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, 

for it gains gratitude for us, and love. 

~Mark Twain 

 

How far you go in life depends on 

your being tender with the young, 

compassionate with the aged, 

sympathetic with the striving and 

tolerant of the weak and strong. 

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. 

~George Washington Carver 

 

You can't live a perfect day 

without doing something for someone 

who will never be able to repay you. 

~John Wooden 

 

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, 

how poor we would be. 

~Antonio Porchia 

 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, 

for you never know how soon it will be too late. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

By swallowing evil words unsaid, 

no one has ever harmed his stomach. 

~Winston Churchill 

 

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone 

who will never find out. 

~Frank A. Clark 

 

Three things in human life are important. 

The first is to be kind. 

The second is to be kind. 

And the third is to be kind. 

~Henry James 

 

Don't let those who take advantage of your generosity 

stop you from being generous. 

~Author Unknown ~ 

 

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. 

~Maya Angelou 

 

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, 

be someone who couldn't care more.