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Kindness

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Prentice, George D.

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Ray, Randolph

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Strait, C. Neil

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ettiene De Grellet

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

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The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

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As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Francke, Katherine

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

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Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

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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.

James, Henry

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Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Penn, William

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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

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The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

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Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

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It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

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The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

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I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

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Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.