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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
Today is a brand new day. A day of change, of promise, of creativity, of kindness, and of love. I'm going back to bed.
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.