Be Kind Quotes - Page 3

• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

  Philo

  Truth, Freedom, Fighting

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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

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

  Mary Webb

  Life, Kindness, Memorable

  Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

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• We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

  Jim Rohn

  Kindness, Mistake, Deep Thought

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2012

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  People, May, Self Centered

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Kind Deeds, Judging

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Truth, Honesty

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

  John Lithgow

  People, Care, Considerate

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• Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Love, Inspirational, Jobs

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Marianne Williamson (2012). “Love For No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Funny, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so
  To punish me with this, and this with me,
  That I must be their scourge and minister.
  I will bestow him, and will answer well
  The death I gave him. So again good night.
  I must be cruel only to be kind.
  Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Heaven, Answers

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Works of William Shakspeare. Life, Glossary, &c. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Compared with All Recent Commentators”, p.610

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• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

  Tori Amos

  Wall, Kids, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Kindness, Valentine's Day, Today

  "Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100" by Sri Chinmoy, (#9280, Part 93), 1979.

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• I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Dark, Giving

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

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• This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

  Radha Mitchell

  Dream, Cities, Acting

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• You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Effort, Understanding, Stills

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• He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

  Dante Alighieri

  Kindness, Waiting, Needs

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  Abu Bakr

  Kind, Should, Caliphs

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• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Law, Boards

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• There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Literature, Sickness

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Heart, Broken, Hardened

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