Ed's Kindness Quotes When Ed received a booklet from Jodi YoB about Kindness, he decided to start sharing a quote with us each day. When he got too ill to do it himself, Sassy and Mairghread stepped in for him. As Ed said when he started posting them, "I thought I would like to share a quote a day in the Kirk hoping they will bring some consolation and good thoughts to heal anyone needing it. What better place for Kindness? Anywhere!" The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. Stephen Jay Gould No act of kindness no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Stanley Smith Kindness is given so softly, so softly, falling like tiny seeds along our paths and brightening them with flowers. Pam Brown - 1928 When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. Rabbi Harold Kushner Be kind - everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. John Watson When I was going through a very difficult time, someone called me up and played piano music for me on my answering machine, it made me feel very loved. And I never discovered who did it. The editors of Conari Press From: The Practice of Kindness Giving is so often thought of in terms of the things we give. But our greatest giving is of our time and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it. We look on these gifts as unimportant - until we need them. Joyce Sequichie Hifler A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. Mohammed Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand Laurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804 - 1876) No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriac 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 One word frees us from all the weight and pain of life; that word is: LOVE. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus If, at the end, all that can be said of you is that you were kind - it is enough. Peter Gray Ed was the epitome of Kindness. He lived these quotes. We miss you, Kind Man.