"Living
the truth in your heart without compromise brings
kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that
compromise your heart cause only sadness."
-- Anonymous 18th century monk
"The
flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it
will some day.
And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness
grows in this way."
-- Robert Alan
"The
good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in
need
Will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle
in deed."
-- Robert Alan
"Sometimes
just a smile on your face
Can help to make this world a better place.
Stand up for the things that are right.
Try to talk things out instead of fight.
Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good.
You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood."
-- Robert Alan
There
is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong,
and that is by doing them good.
-- Henri Amiel
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"It
is easy to perform a good action,
but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing
such actions."
-- Aristotle
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"Keep
doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably
turn out a good man in spite of yourself."
-- Louis Auchincloss.
"For
the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do."
-- George Linnaeus Banks -- What I live for.
"Goodness
is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of
other men, attended by love."
-- Saul Bellow.
"Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-- The Bible: Luke VI.31 (circa 75 A.D.)
"Can
I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
-- William Blake
"Kindness
is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can
understand."
-- C.N. Bovee
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"I
feel no need for any other faith than my faith
in the kindness of human beings...I am so absorbed
in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that
I cannot think of heaven and angels."
-- Pearl
S. Buck |
"Fashion
your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."
-- Buddha
"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.
Pass it on."
-- Rev. Henry Burton
Little
deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make
earth happy like the heaven above.
-- Julia Carney
"Each
person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If
he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great
deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not
complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage
for a person to listen to his own goodness and act
on it."
-- Pablo Casals
"The
creed of a true saint is to make the best of life,
and to make the most of it."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"They're
only truly great who are truly good."
-- George Chapman (1654)
"Did
universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven,
and hell a fable.
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
"What
you do not want others to do to you, do not do to
others."
-- Confucius (circa 500 B.C.)
"A
disciple having asked for a definition of charity,
the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
-- Confucius
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"My
religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
-- The
Dalai Lama
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"To
receive everything, one must open one's hands and
give."
-- Taisen Deshimaru
"If
I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
-- Emily Dickinson
"This
only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
-- John Donne
"Compassion
is the chief law of human existence."
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"Service
is the rent we pay for being. It is the very
purpose of life and not something you do in
your spare time."
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
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"It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of
life that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself."
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"Live,
let live, and help live"
--
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"To
share often and much...to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
--
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Seek
not good from without: seek it within yourselves,
or you will never find it."
-- Epictetus (2nd century)
"Happy
were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good"
-- John Fountain.
"Charity
begins at home, but should not end there."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"It
is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Complete
possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable
to give possesses you."
-- Andre Gide
"Kindness
is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"When
you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll
remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll
become like a wildfire."
-- Whoopi
Goldberg |
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"Goodness
is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
-- David Grayson.
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"If
you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow,
perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be
helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a
mathematical law and all life is mathematics."
-- Gurdjieff
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Practice
random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
-- Ann Herbert
"Compassionate
the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise."
-- DuBose Heyward
"Kindness
can become its own motive. We are made kind by being
kind."
-- Eric Hoffer.
"Concern
should drive us into action and not into depression."
-- Karen Horney.
"Let
us be kinder to one another."
-- Aldous
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"To
make one good action succeed another, is the perfection
of goodness."
-- Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib (7th century A.D.)
It's
no use trying to be clever--we are all clever here;
just try to be kind--a little kind.
-- F.J. Foakes Jackson
"He
who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will
never do anything."
-- Samuel Johnson
Kindness
... loving people more than they deserve.
-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
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"I
am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something. I will not refuse
to do the something I can do."
-- Helen
Keller
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"The
person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who
is worthy of our love -- the bag lady at the corner,
the strange old man who rides through town on a three-wheel
bike all strung up with flags -- is just the person
who, by not fitting into our patterns, insists that
we expand not only our views but also our capacity
to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart
and expand your love so that it touches no only those
to whom you can give it easily, but also to those
who need it so much."
-- Daphne Rose Kingma
"If
we make our goal to live a life of compassion and
unconditional love, then the world will indeed become
a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and
grow."
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"I
want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted
a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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"What
really matters is what you do with what you have."
-- Shirley Lord.
In
the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond
the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir
of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.
-- John A. MacAulay
"We
make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
what we give."
-- Norman MacEswan.
"It
is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness
is born of wisdom."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck.
"There
are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you
help a man to help himself."
-- Moses Maimonides
"Dig
within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is
always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"Adapt
yourself to the environment in which your lot has
been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals
with whom destiny has surrounded you."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"Live
not as though there were a thousand years ahead of
you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while
life and power are still yours."
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"Waste
no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be
one!"
-- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"We
have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now
commit it to life."
-- Edwin Markham
"There
is no better exercise for your heart than reaching
down and helping to lift someone up."
-- Bernard Meltzer
"A
person's true wealth is the good he or she does in
the world."
-- Mohammed
Much
violence is based on the illusion that life is a property
to be defended and not to be shared.
-- Henri Nouwen
Be
kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
-- Plato
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Human
kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened
the fiber of a free people. A nation does not
have to be cruel in order to be tough.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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"Kind
words can be short and easy to speak but their
echoes are truly endless."
-- Mother
Teresa
"Spread
love everywhere you go: first of all in your
own house. Give love to your children, to your
wife or husband, to a next door neighbor...
Let no one ever come to you without leaving
better and happier. Be the living expression
of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness
in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness
in your warm greeting." --
Mother
Teresa
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"If
there is any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do
it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall
not pass this way again."
-- William
Penn
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"In
faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity."
-- Alexander Pope. (1733)
"Live
as if everything you do will eventually be known."
-- Hugh Prather.
"It
is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good
man."
-- Publilius Syrus. (1st century B.C.)
"Kindness
is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater
than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says,
"I want you to be happy."
-- Randolph Ray
"What
wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Kindness
is more important than wisdom, and the recognition
of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin
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"A
man can do only what a man can do. But if he
does that each day he can sleep at night and
do it again the next day."
-- Albert
Schweitzer
"Humanitarianism
consists in never sacrificing a human being
to a purpose."
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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Whenever
there is a human being there is a chance for kindness.
-- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)f
"Kindness
it is that brings forth kindness always."
-- Sophocles (447 BC)
"You
can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force."
-- Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)
"Those
who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives,
and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"You
have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done
something for someone who will never be able to repay
you."
-- Ruth Smeltzer
"One
who knows how to show and to accept kindness will
be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles, 409 BC
"Kindness
gives birth to kindness."
-- Sophocles.
"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
"The
end result of wisdom is...good deeds."
-- Babylonian Talmud
"The
beginning and end of Torah is performing acts of loving
kindness."
-- The Talmud
"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."
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
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"After
the verb "to love," the verb, "to help" is the
most beautiful verb in the world."
-- Bertha
Von Suttner
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"A
warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
-- William Arthur Ward.
"Behold,
I do not give lectures or a little charity, When
I give I give myself."
-- Walt
Whitman |
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"The
best portions of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and love."
-- William Wordsworth
