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"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
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"Blessed is
he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it."
Arabian Proverb
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"Excellence
is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have
acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an
act but a habit." Aristotle
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"For
attractive lips, speak words of kindness." Audrey Hepburn
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"Remember not
only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult
still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Kind words
do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." Pascal
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"Kind words
produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is.
They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his
sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words
in such abundance as they ought to be used." Pascal
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"In the midst
of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too
easily be dismissed as a soft issue, or a luxury to be addressed after
the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all
those areas kindness toward the environment, toward other nations,
toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic
kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting
and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of
how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly
for this planet we all share." Bo Lozoff
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"In
Compassion lies the world's true strength." Buddha
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"The greatest
pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found
out by accident." Charles Lamb
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"A candle
loses none of its light by lighting another candle." - Anonymous
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"Strive to be
first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to
forgive." Anonymous
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"There's good
in everybody. Boost. Don't knock." Warren Harding
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"When you are
kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to
someone else. And it'll become like wildfire." Whoopi Goldberg
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"How far that
little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world." William Shakespeare
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"The best
portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and love." William Wordsworth
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"We make a
living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston
Churchill
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"Forget
injuries, never forget kindnesses. " Confucius
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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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"No act of
kindness, however small, is ever wasted." Aesop
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"The ideas
that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." Albert
Einstein
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"Only a life
lived for others is worth living." Albert Einstein
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"Sometimes
our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
Albert Schweitzer
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"How
wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to
improve the world." Anne Frank
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"Is there any
one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life?
Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such." Confucius
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"If you want
others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion." Dalai Lama
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"Giving
connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection
gives birth to a new sense of belonging." Deepak Chopra
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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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"If a man be
gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but
a continent that joins to them." Francis Bacon
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"We must be
the change we wish to see in the world." M.K. Gandhi
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"Help your
brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore." Hindu
Proverb
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"One kind
word can warm three winter months." Japanese Proverb
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"Tenderness
and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations
of strength and resolution." Kahlil Gibran
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"Kindness in
words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
kindness in feeling creates love." Lao-Tzu
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"Kindness is
a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
Mark Twain
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"Kind words
can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa
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"Kindness is
the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and
nations." Paramahansa Yogananda
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"Always be
kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." Plato
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"You cannot
do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too
late." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Caring is a
reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you
join the others and push...You live, you help." Ram Dass
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"Remember
there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a
ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams
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"I believe
that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." Thomas
Jefferson
