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  We think too much and feel too little.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Thinking, Wicked World

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Kindness, Together

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• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Success, God

  "Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

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• I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

  William Penn

  Kindness, World, Quaker

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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. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Gratitude, Cheer

  "Ideas And Opinions".

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• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Force, Accomplish

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

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Thank You, Karma, Kindness

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• Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Hug, Touch Someone

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• Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Business, Buddhism

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• As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Kindness, People, Half

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Needs, Dictator

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

  Kindness, Men, Ideas

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• No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

  Napoleon Hill

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.134, Penguin

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• The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Kindness, Heart, Forever

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• As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Fiction, God Life

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

  Wayne White

  Kindness, Hollywood, Stuff

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

  Byron Katie

  Kindness, Inspired, Smallest

  "Spiritual Leader Byron Katie Tells ORIGIN Magazine Why We Should Embrace The Quiet". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2014.

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• I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Kindness, Sea, Land

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.253

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• When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

  Agnes Repplier

  Kindness, Milk, Draught

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kindness, Heart, Soul

  "The Soul-Winner; or, How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour" by Charles Spurgeon, 1895.

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• The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

  Sterling W Sill

  Kindness, Fire, Coal

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• In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.

  Laurence Olivier

  Beautiful, Stars, Kindness

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• We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Kindness, Army, Chocolate

  "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'" ("Liberation & Revenge", 2005), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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