Kindness Quotes
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
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“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”
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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
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“The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.”
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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
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“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
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“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
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“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
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“Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.”
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“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
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“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
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“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
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“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
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“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
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“Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.”
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“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
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“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
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“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
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“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
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“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
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“It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying.”
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“Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”
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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
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“I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.”
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“True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.”
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“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
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“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
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“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”
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“When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.”
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“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.”
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“It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.”
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“There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.”
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“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
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“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.”
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“We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.”
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“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.”
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“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
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“Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!”
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“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
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“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
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“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”
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“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”
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“In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”
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“Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.”
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“You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.”
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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.”
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“I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.”
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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
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“Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness.”
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“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.”
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“My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.”
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“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”
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“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.”
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“First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.”
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“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.”
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“Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”
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“Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.”
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“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”
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“With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.”
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“I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”
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“I think the only way to return my followers' kindness and show my appreciation for their support is to become a better actor - and to help people any way I can.”
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“OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.”
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“There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.”
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“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”
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“Kindness is wisdom.”
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“First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.”
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“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
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“I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic.”
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“I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”
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“It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.”
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“Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.”
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“Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.”
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“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
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“Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.”
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“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
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“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”
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“He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.”
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“The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.”
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“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”
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“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
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“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”
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“In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.”
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“I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.”
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“Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.”
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“Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.”
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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.”
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“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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“Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.”
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“Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.”
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“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
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“I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.”
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“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”
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“I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.”
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“Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.”
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“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”
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“I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.”
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“I think true success is intrinsic… It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”
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“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.”
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“Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.”
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“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
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“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”
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“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
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“To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.”
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“Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.”
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“If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.”
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“The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.”
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“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”
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“Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.”
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“The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”
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“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
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“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.”
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“Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.”
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“The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'”
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“There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.”
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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”
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“I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.”
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“I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.”
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“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”
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“Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.”
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“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”
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“Donald learned from a very young age that in order to survive in my family, he needed to be what my grandfather referred to as a killer, you know, somebody who had no weaknesses - in other words, kindness, generosity, sensitivity. So I think, over time, those qualities were systematically drilled out of Donald by his dad.”
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“Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.”
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“One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”
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“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”
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“One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.”
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“The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.”
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“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.”
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“I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural.”
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“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.”
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“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.”
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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
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“I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think 'politeness' is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren't careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite - thinking you can't disagree with someone about your own work - be careful about that.”
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“Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.”
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“There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.”
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“We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.”
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“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
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“My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.”
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“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
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“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”
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“I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.”
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“And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
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“I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.”
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“Passion and kindness are the most attractive qualities. Sense of humour is up there, but kindness becomes more important as you get older. You realise the funny, charming ones aren't always the best people.”
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“I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.”
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“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
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“As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.”
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“If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.”
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“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
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“When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.”
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“There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.”
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“Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.”
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“Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”
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“Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.”
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“If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.”
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“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.”
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“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
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“The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.”
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“I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.”
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“Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move.”
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
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“I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.”
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“We all need to listen to our empathy and step towards kindness and I think books help you to remember that you're an empathic, human animal and that we need to come together.”
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“Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.”
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“Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.”
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“We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.”
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“It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.”
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“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”
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“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”
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“People just deserve to be treated with kindness.”
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“The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.”
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“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.”
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“Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.”
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“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”
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“Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.”
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“God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.”
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“They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.”
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“Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.”
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“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.”
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“I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.”
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“I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.”
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“'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.”
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“It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.”
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“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”
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“I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.”
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“Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.”
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“Being in this position enables myself and others to deliver messages of positivity - we can broadcast to everyone just how beautiful this world is, and all the ways we can keep it beautiful by treating one another with kindness.”
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“In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.”
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“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
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“I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.”
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“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”
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“Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.”
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“I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.”
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“A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.”
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“Everyone responds to kindness.”
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“You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.”
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“When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.”
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“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.”
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“If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.”
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“What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth… today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.”
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“When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.”
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“The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.”
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“There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.”
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“Nobody's perfect, but my dream gal would be intelligent. That's really sexy to me. And kindness is also really, really important. And spontaneity - being open to whatever comes.”
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“If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.”
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“Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people.”
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“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
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“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”
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“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
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“Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.”
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“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.”
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“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”
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“Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.”
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“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
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“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”
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“When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.”
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“True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.”
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“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.”
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“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”
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“I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.”
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“Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.”
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“PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.”
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“There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.”
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“If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.”
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“A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.”
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“I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.”
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“Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.”
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“I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!”
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“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.”
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“People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.”
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“One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.”
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“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.”
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“You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.”
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“I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.”
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“Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.”
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“I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.”
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“I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.”
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“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”
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“I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.”
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“Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.”
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“Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.”
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“It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”
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“Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.”
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“Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.”
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“Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.”
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“When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.”
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“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.”
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“Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.”
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“Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.”
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“There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.”
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“For my father, being kind was natural… I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.”
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“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.”
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“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”
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“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
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“I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”
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“I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.”
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“You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.”
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“With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.”
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“My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.”
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“I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.”
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“When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.”
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“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”
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“My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.”
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“It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.”
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“Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.”
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“I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.”
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“If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.”
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“Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.”
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“I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.”
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“I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.”
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“Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.”
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“We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.”
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“After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.”
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“Love and kindness go hand in hand.”
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“I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.”
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“I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.”
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“Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.”
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“It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.”
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“The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.”
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“I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.”
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“Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.”
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“Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.”
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“We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.”
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“I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.”
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“I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.”
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“There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.”
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“I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.”
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“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”
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“I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.”
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“Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.”
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“There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.”
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“Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.”
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“Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.”
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“I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.”
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“I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.”
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“I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.”
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“If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.”
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“Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.”
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“Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.”
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“I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.”
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“The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.”
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“The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?”
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“We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.”
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“While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.”
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“If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?”
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“Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.”
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“Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.”
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“There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.”
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“There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.”
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“J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.”
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“I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.”
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“The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.”
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“Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.”
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“In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.”
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“I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.”
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“I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.”
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“My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.”
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“'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.”
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“From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.”
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“I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.”
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“It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.”
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“My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.”
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“There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.”
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“I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.”
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“What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.”
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“My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.”
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“Kindness is a sort of love without being love.”
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“Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.”
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“I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.”
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“The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.”
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“In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene.”
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“I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.”
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“Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.”
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“I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.”
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“We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.”
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“Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.”
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“I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.”
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“I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.”
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“The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.”
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“I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities.”
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“The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time … and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.”
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“Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.”
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“Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.”
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“My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.”
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“As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.”
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“As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.”
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“We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.”
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“I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.”
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“Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.”
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“What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.”
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“I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!”
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“Kindness is the No. 1 quality I look for in a man. You can see in how he treats anyone - from a CEO to a housekeeper - and it's a reflection of how nice a guy is. Funniness and confidence come after that… When a guy approaches me, it's fantastic if he can make me laugh.”
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“Sure, I considered myself an anarchist; I considered myself - I still am, obviously - distrustful of the government. But I also understand the virtues of civility or democracy and kindness, of course. I wasn't throwing garbage cans through shop windows.”
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“I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you. I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.”
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“Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.”
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“I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America's blue-collar billionaire at the Republican National Convention because of his love for ordinary Americans and his kindness, generosity, and bold leadership qualities.”
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“Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.”
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“We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.”
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“I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.”
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“The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.”
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“Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women's voices are the strongest when they're together.”
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“You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.”
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“I'm not a Starbucks guy. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line. It typically costs me less than $10, and makes the other people feel good, but more importantly, it makes me feel so good, and random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time.”
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“Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.”
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“When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.”
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“I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.”
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“What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.”
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“Every day, I am blessed by the goodness in our country and the kindness and the generosity of the American people. We share a deep love for this place and a gratitude for the contributions we each make.”
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“In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.”
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“Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.”
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“Even though some heartless North Korean, Korean-Chinese, and Chinese citizens have exploited vulnerable defectors for money, I witnessed many acts of kindness by the Chinese.”
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“I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.”
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“You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.”
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“For some people, the definition of who is and who isn't an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.”
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“We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.”
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“The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.”
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“People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.”
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“Kindness to animals seems to me to be one of the most rudimentary lessons of all.”
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“I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.”
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“We need to eliminate hate speech. We need to do our part to really engineer kindness on our digital platforms.”
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“Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.”
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“Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.”
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“As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.”
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“My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.”
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“My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people's lives better.”
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“One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.”
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“My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.”
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“At KIND, our purpose is to spark kindness.”
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“The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world.”
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“Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.”
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“I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.”
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“I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness.”
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“I came from the theater. It takes a team. We need everyone. It's not just No. 1 on the call sheet. I love to have kindness and respect and a place for where we can create.”
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“I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.”
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“It's great for people to give out of the kindness of their hearts, but because we're in a consumerist society, it's also great to have the opportunity to give and get.”
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“I've been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company - simply out of their own interest and kindness.”
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“In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'”
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“A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.”
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“I've had people send messages that said, 'I'm sorry how I treated you in high school.' It was just through kindness. I still think of the world the same way I did growing up. When I got hurt, I decided that this is how people are. But the world is changing, and even those people have changed. And I have. I need to let go, too.”
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“Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.”
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“I think the best way I can repay the supporters for their kindness towards me, and for all that love, support and appreciation, is to score goals and win trophies for them.”
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“The Southern hospitality is almost the same as the love and the kindness that they show back at home.”
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“It's always good to remind yourself of how awful people can be, even when they seem to be projecting kindness.”
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“I'm proud to work with Crest and help spread the message to #ChooseSmiles because smiles are the easiest way to express kindness or happiness.”
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“Choosing kindness is just as easy as smiling.”
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“I receive kindness every day. I love to smile when I'm out and about, and if someone smiles back, which happens about half the time, I think that's an act of kindness every couple of minutes in my day.”
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“To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.”
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“America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.”
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“Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.”
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“Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.”
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“I don't know what it's like to be mocked because of your skin color. I don't know what it's like to feel overweight. All I can do as a woman is have compassion, treat other women with kindness, and allow them to just be happy and not judge them for it.”
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“One of the things that gave me most pleasure was a letter sent to me by Sebastian Vettel, written in his own hand, full of beautiful words and kindness. I wasn't expecting this; usually, drivers don't do this: they drive, and that's it. But he is a beautiful person.”
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“Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.”
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“It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, to attempt to increase, by even a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world.”
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“I have learnt from Simon Cowell that anything is possible if you work hard enough and also that acts of kindness or giving somebody a few minutes of your time can have a massive impact on their life and their future.”
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“What is kindness? For me, it is about treating people how you would want to be treated ‚Äì but, with so many of us living out our lives on social media, it can be harder and harder to show compassion to those around us.”
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“I believe that people should believe people around them, they should treat each other with kindness.”
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“My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence.”
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“I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative power of their decision to treat me like a human being, that was so huge, that anytime somebody wants me to talk about that I feel like I absolutely want to do that.”
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“My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share theirs with me. They forsook judgment and came to me with kindness and empathy and the impact of that decision was huge.”
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“I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.”
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“We live in a world that has very sharp edges. It can be very bitter and if you come across a little bit of random kindness - someone who is nice to someone - then that is always lovely.”
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“The Comeback' is so cringey and difficult, but watching it, what I was really struck with was the kindness and the generosity.”
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“What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.”
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“I see myself as having this innate weakness that a lot of times will get confused with kindness, but I know that it's often more weakness than kindness.”
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“Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.”
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“My friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.”
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“'Livin' the Life' is about celebrating life and spreading love and kindness around the world.”
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“I have faith in the Almighty and believe in his kindness.”
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“I am humbled that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be inducting me into the WWE Hall of Fame. The kindness and support that Arnold has shown me over the years is truly overwhelming.”
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“When everything else is looking so grim and the world is changing so fast that it's scary, one thing that remains consistent is kindness.”
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“Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.”
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“No matter what government does or does not do, people need to remember the power is in their hands to make their small part of the world better. Set a tone of kindness.”
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“What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.”
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“Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.”
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“Papa had some amazing qualities. He was a very spiritual person. He was very passionate about his work. He was a completely self-made man. At the same time, his generosity and kindness were two aspects of him that really defined his personality.”
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“Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.”
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“Being able to provide kindness to people putting their lives at risk in hospitals and supporting Philadelphia families in dire need of help is an important responsibility for me.”
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“I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders.”
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“Here's what I think is good about 'Ted Lasso' and what I'm proud of in it, as a writer: It's about kindness and teamwork and empathy, and being curious and not judgmental, but it does all of that through storytelling and plot.”
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“I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!”
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“We need to see kindness and we need to see empathy and compassion. That's something we need to see in leadership as well.”
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“I've been inspired by some new people, I can say, from different companies and from just different walks of life, who've said so many beautiful and kind things to me. The very least I can do, is to do the same for others. Kindness begets more kindness. I want to see more of that.”
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“When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?”
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“My dad has always been somebody, who is known to have heart of gold. He is too humble and kind. So, that kindness gets me into trouble sometimes because everybody expects me to be as nice as him.”
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“We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.”
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“Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.”
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“Coldplay's music is so uplifting but not cheesy. You listen to it and you're taken away. It's so honest. There's kindness to their music.”
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“Firstly, I would say 'kindness is free' - we've all been on the receiving end of a smile from someone when you need it and it can work wonders. And secondly 'take risks' - sometimes the very thing you fear is actually what you need to do.”
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“We do random acts of kindness all the time, but we wanted to leave a legacy for our whole family and just help people for a long long time, just spread positivity and get kids educated that deserve an education.”
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“It's important for each of us to find a way to give back with those small, everyday acts of kindness and goodwill that can make all the difference for someone.”
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“I've raised two strong women to be champions of kindness and I'm so proud of them for that.”
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“When my daughter Stefani - who most people know as Lady Gaga - was a child, she had to learn painful lessons about the dangers of cruelty and the importance of kindness.”
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“Our goal is to do our part to help make the world a 'kinder & braver' place by empowering and inspiring youth around the country, and hopefully others who want to stand up for kindness, acceptance and love.”
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“The impact of kindness cannot be understated.”
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“Our seemingly small acts of kindness have the power to impact every measure of our lives and help our communities thrive.”
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“We work to promote the mental health and wellness of young people by: making kindness cool; validating the emotions of young people; and eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health.”
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“We know kindness alone won't solve the world's problems, but we do know it can impact a person's ability to get through their day.”
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“Kindness is not a nice-to-have, it's a must-have - for ourselves and for others.”
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“Arsene Wenger threw up a whole different way of managing through love, with kindness, consideration and compassion.”
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“As human beings, we all must imbibe the virtue of kindness.”
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“Those values that I think relate to gumbo diplomacy are generosity, hospitality, its kindness… all of that.”
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“Ceremonies are about groups agreeing on codes of behaviour and collectively committing to them… Community, responsibility and kindness usually top the list.”