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Kindness |
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| “What
wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” |
| -- Jean-Jacques
Rousseau |
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| “Kindness gives birth to kindness.” |
| -- Sophocles |
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| “Always be a little kinder than necessary.” |
| -- Sir James M. Barrie |
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| “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness
is not.” |
| -- Samuel
Johnson |
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| “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a
hard battle.” |
| -- Philo |
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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." |
| -- Henry James (1843-1916), American writer |
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| "Practice random kindness and senseless
acts of beauty." |
| -- Anonymous |
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can
hear and the blind can see."
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--
Mark Twain
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| “The
best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.” |
| --
William Wordsworth |
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| “Kindness
is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” |
| -- Goethe |
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| "This is my simple religion. There is no
need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain,
our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." |
| -- Dalai Lama |
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| "Neither
genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can
do that." |
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--
Jean
Baptiste Henri Lacordaire |
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| “The
ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and
truth.” |
| -- Albert
Einstein |
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| "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 |
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| "Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness
in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates love."
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--
Lao-Tzu |
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| "Forget injuries, never forget
kindnesses." |
| -- Confucius |
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| "No act of kindness, no matter how small,
is ever wasted." |
| -- Aesop (550 BC) |
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| "I expect to pass through
this life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect
it, as I shall not pass this way again." |
| --
William Penn
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| "Human
kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.
A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough."
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| --
Franklin
D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Thirty-second President of the US |
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| "Kindness
is never learned; it comes warmly and naturally from the heart, or
it does not come at all." |
| --
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| "Courtesies of a small and trivial
character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and
appreciating heart." |
| -- Henry Clay (1777-1852), |
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| "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As
the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust
and hostility to evaporate." |
| -- Albert Schweitzer |
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| "I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in
generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition.
I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to
do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard |
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| "Today we are afraid of simple words like
goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old
words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And
that's why the world is sick." |
| --
Lin Yutang |
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| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made'
man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever
done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us,
has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts,
as well as our success." |
| --
George Burton Adams (1851-1925), American educator, historian |
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| "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for
you never know how soon it will be too late." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
writer, philosopher |
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| "Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I
have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what
is true." |
| -- Robert Brault |
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| "Shall we make a new rule of life from
tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary." |
| -- Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937),
British writer |
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| “I expect to pass through life but once. If,
therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can
do for any fellow being, let me do it now… as I shall not pass
this way again.” |
| -- Williams
Penn |
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