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
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The
end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-- Anita
Roddick |
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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
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The
quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process
we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than
by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable,
the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will
be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.
-- Joseph
Rotblat |
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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The
good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good
you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
-- Bertrand
Russell |
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"When
you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens
up to you."
-- Susan
Sarandon |
Compassion
is the basis of all morality”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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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."
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Constant
kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-- Albert
Schweitzer "Humanitarianism
consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
-- Albert
Schweitzer |  |
At times our own
light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has
cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within
us.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
Compassion,
in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert
Schweitzer
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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I
do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really
believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
-- Kyra
Sedgwick |
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Wherever there is
a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
-- Seneca
"Those
who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their
old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Life
is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway
to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate.
Inquire, know Thyself.”
-- Swami Sivananda
"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
it is that brings forth kindness always."
-- Sophocles (447 BC)
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
"You
can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force."
-- Publilius Syrus
(1st century BC)
