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Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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.

Burton, Henry

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Talmud, The

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If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

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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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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Sweetland, Ben

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Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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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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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.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.