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“With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.”

Way Kind Speak Kindness Effects Regard Careful Occasions Manifest Be Careful Gentleness Rebuke

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.”

Feelings Earth Heaven Causes Kindness Effects Produce Spring Rain Ice Gentle Beneficial Covering Beam Spring Rain

Book:Hertha

Source: Hertha

“If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.”

Ifs Love Hate Kindness Effects Produce Judging Hatred Love Hate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.”

Kindness Effects Independent Cruelty I Have Learned

Author:Edward Albee

“To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love. That has a sure effect. To those who are not kind, show kindness. To those who are mean, show bigness of heart.”

Ifs Want Heart Kind Mean Shows Easy Understanding Simple Kindness Effects Love You Example

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Kind Spirit Kindness Our Lives Worst Effects This World Letters Practicals Jest Kind Words Tolerable

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.”

Feels Eye Kindness Effects Drawing Separation Serenity Relaxation Novelty

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

Causes Compassion Kindness Effects Appreciation Compliment Kindness And Compassion Small Kindnesses

Author:Robert Breault

“The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.”

Persons Kindness Effects Hearted Good Hearted

Author:Oscar Arias

“Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour”

Love Life Heart Happiness Success Felt Attitude Family Kindness Effects Humour Manners Our Family Good Man Surviving Good Manners Heart Attack

Author:Hugh Massingberd

“The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.”

Firsts Kindness Effects Uncommon Lost Friendship Lost Friend Beneficence

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.”

Thinking Stories Light Action Causes Kindness Gone Effects Holy Ideals Labor Passionate Seeds Commit All Kinds Sublime Bud Radiance Crossroads Indolence

Author:Mary Oliver