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Inspiring Kindness Quotes

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

# Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
# No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop
# For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. ~Audrey Hepburn
# Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa
# Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. ~Gandhi
# It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahil Gibran
# Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ~Richard Carlson
# Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark
# When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ~Dalai Lama
# Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Philo
# Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie
# How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~George Elliston
# Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. ~Lao-Tse
# Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown
# To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ~Confucius

Peace Quotes

Posted on October 13, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

“Peace is its own reward.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Moshe Dayan

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Cute Quotes about Love and Friendship

Posted on October 2, 2010October 2, 2010 by

“Don’t find love, let love find you. That’s why it’s called falling in love, because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just fall.” – Anonymous

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.” – George Jean Nathan

“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.” – Samuel Richardson

“Friendship is Something Special any person can have. You learn to love and communicate and you feel special yourself.” – Anonymous

“It would be impossible to love anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” – Paul Valéry

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

“Love is neither true or false, love is love.” – Camilla Saunders

“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” – Anonymous

“How can you be friends with someone when every time you see them you want them even more?!” – Anonymous

“The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown

“Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love …” – Anonymous

“Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.” – Anonymous

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” – Anonymous

“A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” – Anonymous

Top Inspirational Quotes for Speeches

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

Joy Quotes

Posted on February 6, 2010February 6, 2010 by

– “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson

– “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul

– “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie

– “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown

– “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11

– “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion

– “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha

– “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah

– “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown

– “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28

– “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall

– “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson

– “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

– “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah

– “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba

– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

– “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner

– “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks

– “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

– “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb

Best Happy Quotes

Posted on September 28, 2009 by

– “By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.” – Samuel Johnson

– “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ” – Voltaire

– “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

– “When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” – Oscar Wilde

– “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

– “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

– “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.” – Mother Teresa

– “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler

– “Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.” – Harriet Shepard

– “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius

– “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” – G. K. Chesterton

– “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” – Mother Teresa

– “I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!” – William Blake