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• If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

  Dean Koontz

  Grateful, People, Giving

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  Eric Burdon

  Memorial Day, Men, World

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• But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.

  Sarah McLachlan

  People, Trying, Want

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• Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Culture, Body Image

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• Be kinder than expected.

  Robin Sharma

  Expected

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Grief, Moving

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Circumstances

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Feelings

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• Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

  Plato

  Sea, Wish, May

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• Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kindness, Stranger

  "Total Recall". Book by Sara Paretsky, 2001.

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• It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Car, Effort

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• You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Climbing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thinking, Racism, People

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• Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

  James M. Barrie

  Trying

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• Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Ideas, Track

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• While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

  Robin Sharma

  Home, Average, Office

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 28, 2013

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• Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.

  Karen Dawn

  New York, Sunday, Animal

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

  Gail Caldwell

  Recovery, Loss, Different

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.182, Random House

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• There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, World

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• You know Hachi, your life depends only on ourselves. I’m still convinced about this… But I’ve also learned to accept that people… don’t all become as strong, and it made me kinder than before.

  Ai Yazawa

  Strong, People, Accepting

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• Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Son, Dark

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• [Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor. [Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Kings, Kneeling

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