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Let
us be kinder to one another.
Aldous Huxley’s last words |
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You
have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this
world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of
sincere appreciation
to someone
who is lonely or
discouraged. Perhaps you will forget
tomorrow the kind
words you
say today, but the recipient
may cherish them over a
lifetime.
Dale
Carnegie
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Neither
genius, fame, nor love shows
the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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Too often, people make
the mistake of believing that if they only had
more money or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking
body,
they
would feel the sense of "wholeness"
they have always craved. Virtually without exception, this is not the case. What is actually
lacking
is the dimension of giving and kindness as a means of nourishing the soul.
To
add this dimension
to your life is to nourish your soul.
Harold Kushner
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Kind words
can be short and
easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often
from your path.
Mary Webb
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Shall
we try to make a new rule of life
from tonight:
Always
try to be a
little kinder than is necessary?
James
M. Barrie
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A part of kindness
consists in loving
people
more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
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To
cultivate kindness is a valuable
part
of the business of
life.
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Kindness has converted
more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.
Mother Teresa
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The greatest things
in life are ordinary, everyday humanities: Speaking
kindly to people, speaking kindly of people, doing kindness for people.
Fred Van Amburgh
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When
you receive a kindness, remember it;
when you do a
kindness, forget it.
Greek proverb
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Our conduct, the way we act, may be similar to a
boomerang--
especially loving acts of kindness. For kindness has a way of
returning to those who express it to others. . . . It is the truly
brave,
the truly great, the truly unafraid who often exhibit the greatest
kindness in their activities.
John Marks
Templeton
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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
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I
wonder why it is that we are not all
kinder to each other than
we are. How much
the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
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Kind
words are the music of the world.
They have a power
which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were
some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.
It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone
can do—soften the hard and angry hearts of people.
No one
was ever corrected by a sarcasm—crushed, perhaps,
if the
sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God, never.
Frederick William Faber
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Until you have
learned to be tolerant with those who do not always
agree with you;
until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind
word of those
whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the habit
of looking for the good instead of the
bad there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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While
great brilliance and intellect are to be admired,
they cannot dry
one tear or mend a broken spirit. Only kindness can accomplish
this.
John M. Drescher
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Kindness
in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking
creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-tzu |
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Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on.
Henry Burton |
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Kind
words produce their own beautiful image in one's soul.
Everyone
knows the pleasure of receiving a kind look,
a warm greeting, a hand
held out in time of need.
And such gestures can be made at so
little expense,
yet they bring such dividends to the investor.
The
War Cry
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If you
have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
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In
scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.
George Ade
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Our
lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behavior.
We are
nourished by expressions like “excuse me,” and other such simple
courtesies.
Our spirits are also richly fed on compliments and praise,
nourished by consideration as well as whole wheat bread.
Rudeness,
the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark
that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality,
if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays |
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So many
gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
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Do we
spread loving kindness? There are many who say that
this is our ultimate goal on this planet--to spread loving kindness
to our fellow human beings. And when we are able to accomplish
this goal, we find that our lives are transformed in the process.
We're no longer so strongly focused on things and negative
thoughts and feelings, but we've become truly happy,
content human beings who love life and living.
tom walsh
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Right from the
moment of our birth, we are under the care
and kindness of our parents. And then later on in our life,
when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are
again dependent on the kindness of others. And since at
the beginning and end of our lives, we are so dependent
on others' kindness, how can it be in the middle
that we neglect kindness towards others?
the
Dalai Lama
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"Being
kind to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses," said the mole.
"We often wait for kindness. . . but being kind to yourself can
start now."
Charlie Mackesy
The
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Perform
a kind action, and you find a kind feeling growing in yourself,
even if it was not there before. As you increase the number of your
kind and charitable interests, you find that the more you do for them,
the more you love them. Serve others, not because they are your
friends,
not because they are interesting, not because they are grateful. . . .
Serve them because they are the children of your Father, and therefore
are all your brethren, and you will soon find that the
fervent heart keeps time with the charitable hands.
W.B.O.
Peabody
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They whose minds are filled with kindness
will never enter a world dark with woe.
Tiruvalluvar
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Without kindness there
can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle |
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Be kind: Everyone you meet is fighting a hard
battle.
John Watson |
Those who act kindly in this world will have
kindness.
from the Qur'an
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My religion is very simple--my religion is kindness.
the Dalai
Lama
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It is difficult to give away kindness.
It keeps coming back to you.
Cort Flint
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Kindness is more important
than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning
of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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A single act
of kindness may have a long trajectory and touch those
we will
never meet or see. Something that we casually offer may
move through
a web
of connection far beyond ourselves to have
effects that we may have never
imagined. And so each of us may
have left far more behind us than we may ever know.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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Kindness is given
so softly,
so gently,
Falling like tiny seeds along
our paths--and brightening
them with flowers.
Pam Brown |
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The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain
generous and patient,
kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul
seems
to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects
it,
and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.
John O'Donohue
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Kindness
is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down
to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving
of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured
get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
Honore De Balzac |
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Life is mostly
froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon |
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Kindness
may be achieved by all, rich
and poor, learned and illiterate.
Brilliance of mind and capacity
for deep thinking have rendered
great service to humanity, but
by themselves they are impotent
to dry a tear or mend a broken heart.
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Guard
within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how
to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how
to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart,
by the happiness of those you love, the happiness
that may be wanting to yourself.
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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.
Emmanuel Swedenborg
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How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches
it!
George Elliston
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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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It doesn't take
monumental feats to make the world a better place. It
can be as simple as letting someone go ahead of you in a grocery line.
Barbara Johnson |
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