Be kind to everyone because it costs you nothing and it takes you far.
Rachel Brosnahan · The actress on kindness.
Short positive quotes of fewer than twenty words, the bright lines for a hard day, each checked to its source.
Rachel Brosnahan · The actress on kindness.
The Bible · Proverbs 25:25
Alexander Pope · The source reads: “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never Is, but always To be blest.” · From An Essay on Man; the next line is "Man never is, but always to be blest."
Oprah Winfrey · Harvard Commencement address, 30 May 2013.
Emily Dickinson · The opening of the poem, which goes on that it sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Helen Keller · From her early essay Optimism; often quoted with "and confidence" added, which is not in the text.
Philander Chase Johnson
Margaret Mitchell
The Bible · Genesis 1:10
Winston Churchill · Article “A Second Choice”, Strand Magazine, March 1931
Winston Churchill · Guildhall, London, 9 November 1954
Colin Powell · The last of Powell's "13 Rules", the leadership maxims he kept on his desk and printed in his memoir.
Marcus Aurelius · The source reads: “Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” · A private note written on campaign; the familiar line is a modern paraphrase of George Long's 1862 translation.
Horace · The source reads: “Nil desperandum. Never despair.”
Anne Herbert · A line the writer scrawled on a placemat in Sausalito in 1982, which became a bumper sticker and a book.
Albert Einstein · To his stepdaughter Margot.
Henry Fielding
Jonathan Swift · A toast from Swift's parody of small talk, which turned out to be the best wish in the book.
Goldie Hawn · The actress on smiling.
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