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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A A Milne


Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer


It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
- Bailey


A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- Anonymous


Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
- Anonymous


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
- Charles Kuralt


Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Confucius


To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius


This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama


The only religion is kindness.
- Dalai Lama


Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
- David Garrick


He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
- Demosthenes


I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
- Elbert Hubbard


Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
- Eric Hoffer


What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
- George Eliot


Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- George Sand


There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
- Gerald Massey


And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
- Homer


We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
- John Dewey


I have learnt silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange I am ungrateful to these teachers
- Kahlil Gibran";


Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutions
- Kahlil Gibran


Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love.
- Lao Tzu.


Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
- Lin Yutang


The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
- Lord Byron


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proberb


Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
- Mikao Usui


Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Theresa


Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy from Russia and millions of anonymous women and men live nonviolence.
- O Anna Niemus


My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
- Olive Schreiner


Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.


Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
- Philip James Bailey


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.
- Rev Henry Burton


Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
- Richard Carlson


I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
- Robert Burton


Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Sir Arthur Helps


On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth


That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth


It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero


Though he was rough, he was kindly.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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