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You don't need your eyes to love, Right?

If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed....

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Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

It's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. Why I love that line, that concept, is...

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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

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Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little be...

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to gi...

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

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

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Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

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Richard CarlsonDon't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

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Richard CarlsonDon't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and k...

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But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,The heart benevolent and kindThe m...

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Robert BurnsCollected Poems of Robert Burns

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a fam...

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Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself ne...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

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Samael Aun WeorRevolution of the Dialectic: Esoteric Psychology and Meditation

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business ...

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Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

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SapphoA Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of...

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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

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Sri ChinmoyMy Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should...

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If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, y...

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They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even fo...

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I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - a...

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The century of Einstein and Planck was also the century of Hitler. The Gestapo and the scientific re...

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He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, b...

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Terry PratchettUnseen Academicals

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...

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Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

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Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours."Every...

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For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Word for World is Forest

My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the...

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This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets m...

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Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings ...

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Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

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The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the pri...

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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might...

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...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 1

Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, th...

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That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin...

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Walter MosleyThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, w...

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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it...

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...

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They tell me, shaking their heads:"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".I used to be kind....

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Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone.Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in...

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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, i...

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

He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good f...

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give peopl...

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With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The anima...

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I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have...

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Alexander McCall SmithA Distant View of Everything

If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to ...

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It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things tha...

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That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli...

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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness ...

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For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret anno...

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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or l...

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Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even wh...

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