Kindness
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- If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
- If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
- If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- If you see someone without a smile today, give ’em yours.
- If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.
- If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.Mary WebbSourced
- If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
- If you wanna see the true character of person watch the way they treat someone who can’t do anything for them.
- If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- If you want to be happy, be kind to others.
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.
- If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
- I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.David O. McKayCommonly attributed
- Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
- In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
- In my experience, most people deserve generosity. Particularly those determined to believe they don’t.
- In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
- In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
- In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
- It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each otherAldous HuxleySourced
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- It is not life to live for one's self alone. Let us help one another.
- It is the privilege of human nature above brutes, to love those that disoblige us.
- Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
- Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided.
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
- Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
- Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
- Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
- Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.
- Kindness gives birth to kindness.
- Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.Frederick William FaberSourced
- Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
- Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and understand.