Kindness
is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good
will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy.
-- Randolph Ray
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The
end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-- Anita
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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.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
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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.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
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The
quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process
we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than
by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable,
the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will
be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.
-- Joseph
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What wisdom
can you find that is greater than kindness?
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Kindness is
more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin
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The
good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good
you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
-- Bertrand
Russell |
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"When
you start to develop your powers of empathy and
imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
-- Susan
Sarandon
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Compassion
is the basis of all morality”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at
night and do it again the next day."
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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 "Humanitarianism
consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
-- Albert
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As
the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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At times our own
light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has
cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within
us.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
Compassion,
in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its
full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
And
as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look
for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion,
a gentler way of looking at things.
-- Martin Scorsese
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I
do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really
believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
-- Kyra
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Wherever there is
a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
-- Seneca
"Those
who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their
old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Together
we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world through kindness.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
"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."
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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"The
flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will
some day.
And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows
in this way."
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
"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."
--
Robert
Alan Silverstein
“Life
is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of
the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate.
Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire,
know Thyself.”
-- Swami Sivananda
"You
have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who
will never be able to repay you."
-- Ruth Smeltzer
"One who knows
how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles, 409 BC
"Kindness
gives birth to kindness."
-- Sophocles.
"Kindness
it is that brings forth kindness always."
-- Sophocles (447 BC)
It
has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire
in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding
and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system.
And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness,
meanness, egotism and self- interest, are the traits of
success. And while men admire the quality of the first
they love the produce of the second.
-- John Steinbeck
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next
to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves
reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion
traveling back and forth.
-- Sharon Stone
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
"You
can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force."
-- Publilius Syrus
(1st century BC)
