"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
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"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
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"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."
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"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness."
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"We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good."
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"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
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"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief."
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"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
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"I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."
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"The simple act of caring is heroic."
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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."
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"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
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"Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?""
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"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
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"We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . ."
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"Men are cruel, but Man is kind."
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"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
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"Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence."
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"Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness."
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"Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always."
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