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We
restore the holiness of the world
through our loving-kindness and
compassion. Everyone participates.
It is a collective task. Every act
of loving-kindness, no matter how
great or small, repairs the world.
All those ever born have shared
this collective work since
the beginning of time.
Rachel
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Let
us be kinder to one another.
Aldous Huxley’s last words |
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Kind words
can be short and
easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa |
Shall
we try to make a new rule of life
from tonight: Always
try to be a
little kinder than is necessary?
James
M. Barrie |
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Kind
words are the music of the world.
They have a power
which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were
some angel’s song which had lost its way and come on earth. It seems as if they could almost do what in reality God alone
can do—soften the hard and angry hearts of people.
No one
was ever corrected by a sarcasm—crushed, perhaps,
if the sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God, never.
Frederick William Faber
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often
from your path.
Mary Webb |
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Neither
genius, fame, nor love shows
the greatness of the soul.
Only kindness can do that.
Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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Too often, people make
the mistake of believing that if they only had
more money
or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking
body,
they would feel the sense of "wholeness"
they have always craved.
Virtually without
exception, this is not the case. What is actually
lacking
is the dimension of giving and kindness as a
means of nourishing the soul.
To add this dimension
to your life is to nourish your soul.
Rabbi
Harold Kushner
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A part of kindness
consists in loving people
more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert |
To
cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of
life.
Samuel Johnson |
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Mother Teresa
Kindness has converted
more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.
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All the kindness which
a person puts out into the world
works on the heart and
thoughts of humankind.
Albert
Schweitzer
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When
you receive a kindness, remember it;
when you do a
kindness, forget it.
Greek proverb
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Kindness
in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-tzu
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Three things in human life are important:
The first is to be kind. The second is
to be kind. And
the third is to be kind.
Henry James |
I
wonder why it is that we are not all
kinder to each other.
. . . How much
the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
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You
have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this
world's
happiness now. How? By giving a few words of
sincere appreciation
to someone who is lonely or
discouraged. Perhaps you will forget
tomorrow the kind
words you say today, but the recipient
may cherish them over a
lifetime.
Dale
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Until you have
learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;
until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those
whom you do not admire;
until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the
bad there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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While
great brilliance and intellect are to be admired,
they cannot dry one tear or mend a broken spirit.
Only kindness can accomplish this.
John
M. Drescher
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Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on.
Henry Burton |
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Kind
words produce their own beautiful image in one's soul.
Everyone
knows the pleasure of receiving a kind look,
a warm greeting, a hand
held out in time of need.
And such gestures can be made at so
little expense,
yet they bring such dividends to the investor.
The
War Cry
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If you
have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act,
you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen |
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Guard
within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how
to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how
to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart,
by the happiness of those you love, the happiness
that may be wanting to yourself.
George Sand |
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How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches
it!
George Elliston |
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle |
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In
scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.
George Ade |
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Kindness
may be achieved by all, rich
and poor, learned and illiterate.
Brilliance of mind and capacity
for deep thinking have rendered
great service to humanity, but
by themselves they are impotent
to dry a tear or mend a broken heart.
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Our
lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behavior.
We are
nourished by expressions like “excuse me,” and other such simple
courtesies.
Our spirits are also richly fed on compliments and praise,
nourished by consideration as well as whole wheat bread.
Rudeness,
the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark
that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality,
if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays |
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Constant
kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes
ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert
Schweitzer |
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So many
gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella
Wheeler Wilcox |
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Do we
spread loving kindness? There are many who say that
this is our ultimate goal on this planet--to spread loving kindness
to our fellow human beings. And when we are able to accomplish
this goal, we find that our lives are transformed in the process.
We're no longer so strongly focused on things and negative
thoughts and feelings, but we've become truly happy,
content human beings who love life and living.
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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. And since at
the beginning and end of our lives, we are so dependent
on others' kindness, how can it be in the middle
that we neglect kindness towards others?
the
Dalai Lama |
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Perform
a kind action, and you find a kind feeling growing in yourself,
even if it was not there before. As you increase the number of your
kind and charitable interests, you find that the more you do for them,
the more you love them. Serve others, not because they are your
friends,
not because they are interesting, not because they are grateful. . . .
Serve them because they are the children of your Father, and therefore
are all your brethren, and you will soon find that the
fervent heart keeps time with the charitable hands.
W.B.O.
Peabody |
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They whose minds are filled with kindness
will never enter a world dark with woe.
Tiruvalluvar |
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| Be kind: Everyone you meet is fighting a hard
battle.
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Those who act kindly in this world will have
kindness.
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My religion is very simple--my religion is kindness.
the Dalai
Lama |
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Kindness is more important
than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning
of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Kindheartedness is what we
treasure most in family, friends,
classmates, colleagues, adversaries, and strangers. A kind heart,
a loving heart, a soft heart would rather do anything than hurt
another's feelings. . . . A person who is kind is gentle, considerate,
and inclined to benevolent actions. A kindhearted person is also nice.
Michael
Goddart |
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When I
interact with individuals around me in thoughtful, caring ways, my actions
become an influence for good. I know that kindness shared multiplies and
has a ripple effect as it radiates from one heart to another.
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What if
we--just you and me--made a commitment to mindfully
integrate kindness into each and every day of our lives? We
would start a kindness revolution. Let's do it. Let's become
the proverbial pebbles in the pond and send out ripples of
kindness into the world each day. Those whose hearts are touched
by our kindness will, hopefully, be encouraged to pass it on,
and a revolution of much-needed kindness will have begun.
Sue
Patton Thoele |
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A single act
of kindness may have a long trajectory and touch those we will
never meet or see. Something that we casually offer may move through
a web
of connection far beyond ourselves to have effects that we may have never
imagined.
And so each of us may have left far more behind us than we may ever know.
Rachel
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