Kindness

Author Unknown
“Kindness is the greatest wisdom.” 
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Dalai Lama
“The only religion is kindness.”
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.” 
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Frank Tyger
“There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.”  
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Plato
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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Author Unknown
“A kind word is like a Spring day.”
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Samuel Johnson
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
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Author Unknown
“Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.” 
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Confucius
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.”
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Alfred Fripp
“If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.”  
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Author Unknown
“Love someone who doesn't deserve it.”
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Malcolm S. Forbes
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
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Zig Ziglar
“There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.” 
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Liz Armbruster
“To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.” 
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Karl Reiland
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.”  
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Terri Guillemets
“Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.” 
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Dan Bennett
“Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.”  
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James M. Barrie
“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
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Jesse Jackson
“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.”
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John Cassis
“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”
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Author Unknown
“Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.” 
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Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
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Cicero
“There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.”
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Author Unknown
“The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.”
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Aesop
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
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Author Unknown
“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”
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Eric Hoffer
“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”
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Confucius
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
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Author Unknown
“One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.”
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Richard Carlson
“Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.”
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Author Unknown
“A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.”
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Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
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Philip James
“Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.”
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Mark Twain
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 
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Henry Boye
“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” 
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Winston Churchill
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” 
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Dave Barry
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
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Cleveland Amory
“What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.”
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Rudyard Kipling
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”  
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When I was young, I admired clever people.  Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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Frank A. Clark
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”  
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John E. Southard
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”  
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Nelson Henderson
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” 
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James Matthew Barrie
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
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Hartman Rector
“People do not really care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
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Author Unknown
“The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.”
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Bob Hope
“If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
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Henry D. Taylor
“As long as you are good you will be great.  But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.”
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Margaret Cho
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” 
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Author Unknown
“Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.”
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Author Unknown
“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.” 
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Julia Carney
“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.”
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Charles Kuralt
“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”  
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The Dalai Lama
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
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Bertrand Russell
“The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.”
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Booker T. Washington
“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.” 
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Samuel Johnson
“Getting money is not all a man's business:  to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” 
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Dalai Lama
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
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Kahlil Gibran
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.”
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John Wooden
“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”  
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William Wordsworth
“The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”  
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Scott Adams
“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
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Author Unknown
“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.” 
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Marian Wright Edelman
“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.” 
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Robert Brault
“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”
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Saint Vincent de Paul
“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.”  
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Matthew 25:40
“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
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Robert Brault
“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.”
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Author Unknown
“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 too kind.”
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Confucius
“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
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Brigham Young
“Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.”
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Charles H. Spurgeon
“A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” 
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Harold B. Lee
“Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.”
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Mikao Usui
“Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.”
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Leo Buscaglia
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” 
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William Penn
“I expect to pass through 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.” 
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Robert Alan
“Sometimes just a smile on your face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.”
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Og Mandino
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.  Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again.”
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George Washington Carver
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.  Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” 
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B.C. Forbes
“I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all---to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.”
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