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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...

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As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in t...

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I have a very simple philosophy of life:Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passi...

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I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the t...

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Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tendernes...

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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting liv...

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Dean KoontzFrom the Corner of His Eye

Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.

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Deepak ChopraFire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....

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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the ligh...

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As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lesson...

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I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the ...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the...

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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...

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The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of th...

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There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. ...

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I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

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Edith WhartonOld New York: Four Novellas

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points t...

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Edward de BonoHandbook for the Positive Revolution

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own soul...

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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...

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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one ano...

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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

It's a little weird that I'm getting an award for being nice and generous and kind... which is what ...

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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and cou...

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I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems on...

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Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there...

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But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intellige...

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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does ...

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If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with g...

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May all that have life be delivered from suffering

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

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How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose...

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The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

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The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

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Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and...

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Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians an...

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The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathe...

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But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kin...

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No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...

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Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never...

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the sa...

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be hear...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindne...

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Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri...

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I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Sma...

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Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into th...

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...

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But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...

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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

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OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, in...

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I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America's b...

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'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend...

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that...

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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-ston...

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But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...

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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my r...

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I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup...

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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

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The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

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The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

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The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch...

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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

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If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in do...

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