Kindness Quotes - Page 15

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  Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Success, Peace

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 04, 2014

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• Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Compassion, Law, Chiefs

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

  Bob Kerrey

  Thank You, Appreciation, Giving

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• Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

  Mencius

  Men, Generosity, Reputation

  Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.331

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• Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

  Marc Estrin

  Gratitude, Inspirational Love, Stupidity

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• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Appreciation, Reality, Emotional

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• Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Compassion

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• It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.

  Tim Ryan

  Heart, Small Acts, Imagination

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.31, Hay House, Inc

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• If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Funny, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Friendship, Understanding, Lasts

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• I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

  Betty Williams

  Trying, World, Care

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• In the end only kindness matters.

  Jewel

  Matter, Ends

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Business, Thinking, Humanity

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

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• To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Giving, Way

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.71, New York Review of Books

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• You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Being Yourself, Differences, People

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Art, Women

  'The World's Need'

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• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

  Vincent de Paul

  Life, Compassion, Light

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• A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

  Confucius

  Inspiration, Charity, Definitions

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• No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.

  Catherine Marshall

  Giving, Littles, Matter

  Catherine Marshall (2002). “Dearest mother, dearest friend: Godly inspiration from the jounals and letters of Catherine Marshall”

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• Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Men, Compassion, Soul

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• The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Ordinary, Human Nature, Thousand

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness!! Share a SMILE and make it a great day:)!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Home, Great Day, Thursday

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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Faith, Angel, Garden

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• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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