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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Teaching, Giving

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• Kindness in giving creates love.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Lady Macbeth, Milk

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

  Moliere

  Freedom, Helping Others, Addiction

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• That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sacrifice, Principles, Grass

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “Baptismal Regeneration”, p.17, Curiosmith

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• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Change, Success, Leadership

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters

  Jewel

  Fighting, Men, Hands

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• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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  We think too much and feel too little.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Thinking, Wicked World, Littles

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Complaining, Littles, Complainers

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• Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

  Andre Gide

  Wise, Helping Others, Giving

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

  Dawna Markova

  Blessed, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Thinking, Justice

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• Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

  Philip James Bailey

  Needs, May

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.413

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• Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Feelings

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• If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.

  Publilius Syrus

  Given, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 415-16, Maxims, 1922.

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• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

  Confucius

  Love, Wise, Heart

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank A. Clark

  Real, Nice, Famous Inspirational

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Women

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Kindness begets kindness evermore.

  Sophocles

  Evermore, Begets

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Growing Up, Spring, Fall

  Jeremy Bentham (1834). “Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified”, p.131

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• Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don't mean necessarily "buddy-buddy", just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they're with you.

  Colin Powell

  Mean, People, Consideration

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Death, Flower

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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