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"If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person."
"Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness."
"Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind."
"Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty."
""I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.""
"It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis."
"At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken."
"We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any."
"If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness."
"When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness."
"Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves."
"Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound."
"He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric."
"In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues."
"He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties."
"Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency."
"The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them."
"In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness."
"An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small."
"Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness."
