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Kindness

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? – Author unknown, quoted by Jacob M. Braude

Kindness is just love with its workboots on. – Author Unknown

What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind. – Cleveland Amory

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. – Frank Tyger

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Author Unknown

A kind word is like a Spring day. – Russian Proverb

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. – Samuel Johnson

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. – Henry Boye

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. – Mark Twain

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. – Frank A. Clark

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. – Henry James

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. – Author Unknown

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

Don’t let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous. – Author Unknown

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. – Maya Angelou