Quotes about kindness
kindness responsibility animal
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. Richard Gere
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I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. Rebecca Wells
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Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it. Roald Dahl
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
kindness heart thinking
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. Richard Rohr
kindness grace doe
Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance. Tullian Tchividjian
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. Tony Snow
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Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. Rebecca Solnit
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The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . . Robert Green Ingersoll
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
kindness blow mind
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
kindness men order
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them. Samuel Johnson
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
kindness men advice
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.
kindness littles return
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
kindness waiting charity
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.
kindness fall grief
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
kindness moving aging
An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually. Robert James Waller
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He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
kindness self omission
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong. Robert Southey
kindness may overcoming
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. Virgil
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. Willa Cather
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
kindness loneliness worry
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear... Vincent Van Gogh
kindness creating may
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?" Wayne Dyer
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Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.
kindness positivity return
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.
kindness simple impact
Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.