Kindness Quotes - Page 32

• The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.

  David Dunn

  Giving, Friendly, Glimpse

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• As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

  Dalai Lama

  Able, Helping, Operations

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• Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

  Sara Paretsky

  Stranger, Kinder

  "Total Recall". Book by Sara Paretsky, 2001.

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• In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

  George Ade

  Hands, Machines, Seeds

  George Ade (1915). “Knocking the neighbors”

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• They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
  I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
  And until they can show me some happier planet.
  More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

  Michael Moore

  May, Bliss, Hours

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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

  Fire, Coal, Hottest

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Home, Brotherhood

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

  Eve Ensler

  Nurse, Nine, Details

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

  Alistair Begg

  Father, Church, Looks

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Opportunity, Each Day, World

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.

  Renee Zellweger

  Boys, Quality, Boy Scout

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• The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

  Lois W.

  Beautiful, People, World

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• Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ego, Ugly, Shows

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• Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Names, Done

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• Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping Others, Love Is, Suspicion

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• There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Believe, Heart, Light

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• If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Land, Be Kind

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• What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Joy, Wish

  Eulogy for Ted Kennedy, delivered 29 August 2009

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• Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.

  William J. Clinton

  Athlete, Compassion, Artist

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• As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Integrity, Responsibility

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Worry, Needs

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

  Ben Hecht

  Heart, Fighting, Laughing

  "Nothing Sacred", 1937.

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• Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Remember, Goodness

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Heart, Forever, Stranger

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• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Judging People, Forgiving

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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