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

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspiration, Social, Being Generous

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• It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Mind, Speech

  "De Officiis". Book by Cicero, II. 14,

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Broken, Pearls

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• Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

  Marc Mero

  Life, Helping Others, Winning

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• Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.

  Peter McWilliams

  Journey, Light, Be Kind

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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 Aurthur

  Flower, Way, Grows

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• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Done, Charity

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.181, Benjamin Franklin

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• If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Benefits, Remember, Never Forget

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• Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Letting Go, Struggle, Not Giving Up

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.131, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Strength, Caring

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• Without kindness there can be no true joy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, True Joy, Joyous

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• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Wise, Gratitude

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Different, Favors

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• I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Compassion, World, Littles

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.

  Mikao Usui

  Letting Go, Blessing, Worry

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• One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Animal, Feelings, Weakness

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

  Sophocles

  Real, Acceptance, Empathy

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

  James Fadiman

  Compassion, People, Joy

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• For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Distance, Needs, Resistance

  George Linnaeus Banks (1853). “Pearls from the Belfry: Lyrics”, p.30

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• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Grace, Citizens

  Essays "Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature" (1625)

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• Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

  Henry Burton

  Mentoring

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• The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

  Norman Cousins

  Work, Mean, Compassion

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Shadow, Sun, Daisies

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.117

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• 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

  Freedom, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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