"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
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"Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people."
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"To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe."
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"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all."
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"As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people."
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"Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."
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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
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"Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love."
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"Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them."
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"If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today."
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"If we always helped one another, no one would need luck."
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"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage."
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"Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant."
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"Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them."
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"But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?"
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"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost."
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"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end."
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"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
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"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
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"There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness."
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