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If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in do...

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle ag...

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If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sy...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

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You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more us...

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Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

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

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...

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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and...

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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your de...

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With those who are kindthe sage is kindWith those who are not kindthe sage is also kindbecause the w...

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving ...

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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his o...

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But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef...

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In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen...

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Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was ...

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Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my fath...

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That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

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You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. ...

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Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother...

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Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to...

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If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself ...

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People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

For some reason, Beck's unexpected kindness was hard to bear - it made tears prick my eyes where Jac...

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So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear a...

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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pai...

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If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...

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I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty...

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The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

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He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affe...

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DogfishI wantedThe past to go away, I wantedTo leave it, like another country; I wantedMy life to cl...

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Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yo...

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The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...

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That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuin...

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You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleano...

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

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...

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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...

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I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardnes...

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Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you a...

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Mother TeresaIn the Heart of the World: Thoughts

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be...

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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...

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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate ...

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If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compas...

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His...

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What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who emp...

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Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understandin...

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A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kin...

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to the...

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kind...

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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in...

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It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine.If you have two pieces of...

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What what," Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "Wha...

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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitud...

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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putt...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act according...

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The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I foundA hedgehog jammed up against the blades,Killed. It had be...

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Philip LarkinCollected Poems

We should be carefulOf each other, we should be kindWhile there is still time

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Philip LarkinCollected Poems

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

You don't need your eyes to love, Right?

If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed....

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Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

It's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. Why I love that line, that concept, is...

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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

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Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little be...

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to gi...

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...

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Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

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