Kindness Can Be

Love

Mercy

Loving

A value

Courage

Empathy

Healing

Helping

Sharing

Warming

A virtue

Altruism

Our ally

Powerful

Selfless

Benignity

Essential

Inspiring

Nurturing

Universal

Compassion

Connection

Contagious

Empowering

Everything

Generosity

Good faith

Motivating

Never lost

Our friend

A boomerang

Hospitality

A spring day

Never wasted

Non-violence

Performative

Transforming

Living openly

Loving people

A selfless act

Its own motive

Its own reward

Love in action

Moral veganism

Not a weakness

A modus operandi

Never thrown away

Paying it forward

A daily requirement

An antidote to hate

Positive difference

The greatest wisdom

Not excluding people

The basis of religion

A strength of character

A way love is expressed

Being nice and generous

Saying I care about you

Uttering pleasant words

A reason love multiplies

Being gracious to others

Recognizing other people

The fruit of a kind heart

A gift that keeps on giving

One of the Knightly Virtues

The politeness of the heart

When someone shares with us

A ripple with no logical end

Doing nice things for others

A bridge to peace and harmony

An engine for positive change

Experiencing life with others

Helping someone else feel heard

The most important thing in life

When we help people who are hurt

A creator of laughter and delight

More than any words we can string

A gift everyone can afford to give

A form of love and a way love forms

Learning about each other’s stories

Giving up our time for somebody else

Showing sympathy through our actions

Someone being nice to us and helpful

Helping people who can’t do something

When we do stuff to make people happy

A choice we’ll be glad we made tomorrow

A way to better ourselves for the world

A way to build trust between two people

Doing the dishes when it’s not our turn

The source of some of our greatest joys

The surest way to reach the human heart

When we help people without them asking

A way to change the world for the better

Picking up something someone has dropped

A willingness to do good or give pleasure

Doing something good to help other people

Letting someone go in front of us in line

Making earth happy, like the heaven above

Our own way of following Christ’s footsteps

The ultimate expression of our love for God

A bucket that can douse bitterness and blame

A tool that can tighten and strengthen bonds

A powerful argument in favour of Christianity

How to treat people and how we speak to people

That thing we do in life that gives us meaning

Doing unto others as we would want done unto us

Not that thing in life we’ve been meaning to do

To honour and acknowledge and celebrate somebody

The decision to put someone else before ourselves

Sharing with people when they don’t have something

The golden chain by which society is bound together

A wellspring of hope and a counterbalance to despair

Choosing to look at somebody instead of looking away

An engine that picks up speed the more ground it gains

An example of what is possible when love is prioritized

The most curative herbs and agents in human intercourse

The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate

The language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see

A reason why life is beautiful, even though it’s challenging

Trying to understand what is going on in someone else’s life

Seeing the best in others when they cannot see it in themselves

How we tell God that we are choosing Him in as much as He chose us

Knowing that there’s safety for whoever we’re with to be vulnerable

The only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out

Feeling like we’re going to explode because someone loves us that much

The giving of oneself to helping another without regard to compensation

Loaning someone our strength instead of reminding them of their weakness

The most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change

Not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because we can

A key that can unlock self-imposed prisons such as selfishness and hostility

A benevolent and helpful action intentionally directed towards another person

A reminder of why we’re here and how we can each use our lives to help others

A gift everyone can give — every day — not only to others, but also to ourselves

One of the most rewarding ways each of us can use our lives to make a difference

A potential path to happiness and a happy way for us to potentially find our paths

A gift we give to others — through supportive words, helping hands, and random acts

A simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world

A deep-seated characteristic shown either habitually or on occasion by considerate behavior

An engine that propels us forward, both as individuals and as a society, towards goodness and greatness

A type of behaviour marked by acts of generosity, consideration, or concern for others, without expecting praise or reward

Crucial, contagious, and completely capable of changing the world for the better if only we commit ourselves to spreading it

An engine that moves us to not only see the world as it is, but also as it could be by showing us the very best of human nature

All the different ways — both big and small — we express care, concern, and consideration for ourselves and those with whom we share the world

Helpfulness towards someone in need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the person helped

A deep cleansing breath that rejuvenates us with its purity, refreshes us with its goodness, and gives us the strength to persevere despite our troubles

The sincere and voluntary use of our time, talent, and resources to better the lives of others, our own life, and the world through genuine acts of love, compassion, generosity, and service

A catalyst for the type of genuine, positive change that slowly, but surely lays the groundwork for a better, brighter, and more beautiful future so long as kindness continues to be released into the world