Kindness Quotes
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There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
William Butler Yeats
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Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
Arthur Lynch
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
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I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.
Alexander Weinstein
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My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
Pierce Brosnan
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I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
Liam Neeson
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The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Dalai Lama
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I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
Mother Teresa
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
Dan Barker
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Evidently, it takes equally thin parts of kindness and sincerity to marry well.
Ami McKay
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I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.
Sarah MacLean
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There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.
Frans de Waal
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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Caroline Kennedy
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I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
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Your greatness is measured by your kindness.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.
Allison McAtee
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
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Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?
Joanna Garcia
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
William Law
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That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
Paul Sarbanes