"He that does good to another does good also to himself."
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"Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it."
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"We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love."
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"To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain"
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"I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people."
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"In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible."
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"Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that."
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"Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible."
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"It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners."
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"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
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"The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."
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"If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it."
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"To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat."
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"If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech."
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"No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are."
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"Man is born for deeds of kindness."
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"Friendship is infinitely better than kindness."
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"When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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