To this day this remains my favorite Jewel song:

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay.

And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these ...

I won't be made useless. I won't be idle with despair.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

In the end only kindness matters.

In the end only kindness matters...

This song inspired an answer of mine on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/If-you-could-change-one-specific-thing-about-the-world-what-would-you-change

Do not worry.Worry is suffering in advance.

See also: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useful-shortest-and-most-generally-applicable-piece-of-wisdom-you-know

Three things in human life are important:
The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind.
And the third is to be kind.
~Henry James

Five lessons on how to treat people:

http://itstimtime.tumblr.com/post/1331369369/five-lessons-on-how-to-treat-people

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." ~ Dalai Lama

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/my_religion_is_very_simple-my_religion_is/145384.html

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain

http://www.facebook.com/adam.rifkin/posts/10150275657480415

Love more, fear less.

Before you speak, THINK.

Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, and Kind?

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/13658175787/before-you-speak-think-is-it-true-helpful

Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Before enlightenment, carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment, carry water, chop wood.

A victim treats his mugger right.

http://www.npr.org/2008/03/28/89164759/a-victim-treats-his-mugger-right

http://www.facebook.com/adam.rifkin/posts/276845262368491

Kindness is Love with its work boots on. ~House Bunny

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it could be too late. ~Casey Grimes

https://twitter.com/Casey_Grimes/status/168410600794357761

Kindness begets kindness.

Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/14287889667/learning-is-a-gift-even-when-pain-is-your

I know that it hurts, but keep trying.

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/14332748423/i-know-that-it-hurts-but-keep-trying

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/14332634365/its-not-whether-you-get-knocked-down-its

If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction. ~ Martin Kornfeld

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/14331993063/if-we-all-do-one-random-act-of-kindness-daily-we

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ~George Sand

http://www.facebook.com/adam.rifkin/posts/10150446896515415

An intelligent person does not need the promise of heaven to see the merit in good deeds.

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/15984627122/an-intelligent-person-does-not-need-the-promise-of

No one has ever become poor by giving. ~Anne Frank

http://ifindkarma.tumblr.com/post/16669080973/no-one-has-ever-become-poor-by-giving-anne

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When it comes to kindness, we become like the people we spend time with:

http://pandawhale.com/post/5531/you-become-like-the-5-people-you-spend-the-most-time-with-choose-carefully