"...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness."
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"The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful."
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"No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away."
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"True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others."
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"Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
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"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness."
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"It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness."
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"I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."
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"There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness.""
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"I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well."
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"In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly."
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"In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven."
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"But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living."
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"It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech."
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"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
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"I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans."
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"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances."
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"If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love."
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"There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion."
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"Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together."
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