“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 202
American poet 1807–1882Related quotes
Understanding & Collaboration Between Religions (2006)
“Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below
Like the heaven above.”
"Little Things" (1845) as quoted in Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson. These were the final words of the poem in the original publication, but later versions published anonymously by other authors appended various additions to this. It has also often appeared credited to Carney in a variant form:
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make earth happy
Like the heaven above.
The poor Man's , reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
Quoted in: Charlotte Gray. Mother Teresa: Her Mission to Serve God by Caring for the Poor. G. Stevens, (1988), p. 53
1980s
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/
Disputed
Variant: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.