Kindness Quotes - Page 7

• Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

  Jack Canfield

  Beauty, Practice, Kind Deeds

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2013

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• Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

  Honore de Balzac

  Rocks, Hands, People

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

  George Saunders

  Regret, Advice, Grad

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.22, A&C Black

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• When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

  Susan Sarandon

  Power, Imagination, Empathy

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• It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Men, Favors

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• And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

  Homer

  Justice, Heaven, Mind

  Homer (1717). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Doctors, Yes You Can

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• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Perfection, Succeed, Action

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• We hate the kindness which we understand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hate

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Jobs, Men, Compassion

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.28, Lantern Books

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• Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Compassion, Eugenics

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• Little deeds of kindness
  Little words of love;
  Help to make earth an Eden
  Like the heaven above.

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

  Love, Happiness, Thank You

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”

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• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

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

  Mary Webb

  Life, Memorable, Generosity

  Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

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• It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, People, Feelings

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• Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Able, Great Person, Persons

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.335

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Nurture, Calmer

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• It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are able to share this love with our neighbors through acts of kindness and service... When this pure love of Christ - or charity - envelops us, we think, feel, and act more like Heavenly Father and Jesus would think, feel, and act. Our motivation and heartfelt desire are like unto that of the Savior.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Motivation, Father

  "Finding Joy through Loving Service" by M. Russell Ballard, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Duty

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• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Revenge, Compassion, Empowering

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• Love and kindness are never wasted.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Karma, Inspirational Love, Inspiring Love

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  One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love, Life, Women

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

  Gerald Massey

  Flower, World, Thorns

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.87

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• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Young, Shows

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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