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“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.”

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Author:Richard Carlson

“Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”

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Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.”

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Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

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Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.”

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Author:Roald Dahl

“This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.”

“I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

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Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

“He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

“Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.”

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Author:Laozi

“A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.”

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

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Book:The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought

Source: The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought

“To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.”

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Book:A Christmas Sermon

Source: A Christmas Sermon

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

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Author:Mao Zedong

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”

“"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."”

“I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me”

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Book:You Changed My Life

Source: You Changed My Life

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

Source: Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

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

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Book:Precious Bane

Source: Precious Bane

“Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".”

“The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

“Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.”

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Author:Maxim Gorky

“Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.”

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”

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Author:Alice Childress

“I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”

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Book:The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

“Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.”

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Author:Edgar Cayce

“Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.”

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Author:Mikao Usui

“It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.”

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Author:F. J. Foakes-Jackson

“Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.”

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Author:Charles Fenno Hoffman

“Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.”

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Author:Rebecca Gibney

“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“Do your little bit of good where you are.”

“Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.”

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Book:The Roald Dahl Treasury

Source: The Roald Dahl Treasury

“Character is the architect of the being.”

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Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return”

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Author:Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.”

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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