Kindness – the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

“Kindness is igniting a light in someone else for no reason other than to watch them enjoy the glow.”  ~Raktivist (‘Short for Random Acts of Kindness activist’)

“Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.”  ~Zig Ziglar

“The Kindest People are not born that way, they are made. They are the souls that have experienced much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist – they choose to soften where circumstances has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in the world.” ~ Anonymous

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet: how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”  ~Fred Rogers

As we live in a community that rallies, loves deeply and displays compassion for others, we know what kindness feels like as it is expressed in so many ways. Though we don’t always know each other’s story, we always have the choice to share kindness.