"We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger."
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"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
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"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."
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"One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can."
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"Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window."
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"If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always."
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"We hate the kindness which we understand."
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"All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors."
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"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
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"Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?"
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle."
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"Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it."
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"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
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"Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help."
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"Constant Kindness can accomplish much."
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"Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
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"Kindness can change the lives of people."
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"For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty."
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"In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."
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