You can't take a step up if you are busy pushing others down.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.