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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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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

Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.

Mother Teresa

The greatest things in life are ordinary, everyday humanities:  Speaking
kindly to people, speaking kindly of people, doing kindness for people.

Fred Van Amburgh

When you receive a kindness, remember it;
when you do a kindness, forget it.

Greek proverb

Our conduct, the way we act, may be similar to a boomerang--
especially loving acts of kindness.  For kindness has a way of
returning to those who express it to others. . . . It is the truly brave,
the truly great, the truly unafraid who often exhibit the greatest
kindness in their activities.

John Marks Templeton

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 than
we are. How much the world needs it!  How easily it is done!

Henry Drummond

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 to 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

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

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

Kindness in words creates confidence.  Kindness in thinking
creates profoundness.  Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-tzu

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

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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In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

George Ade

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

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

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.

tom walsh

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

"Being kind to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses," said the mole.
"We often wait for kindness. . . but being kind to yourself can start now."

Charlie Mackesy
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

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 Naomi Remen

Kindness is given so softly,
so gently,
Falling like tiny seeds along
our paths--and brightening
them with flowers.

Pam Brown

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead.  People are apt to put it down
to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving
of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured
get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Honore De Balzac

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things
even if we do not get anything in return.  It is the joy of our life to
do them.  When we do good things from this inner desire, there is
kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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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

It doesn't take monumental feats to make the world a better place.  It
can be as simple as letting someone go ahead of you in a grocery line.

Barbara Johnson