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“More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.”

Running Water Kindness Fine Forgiveness Flow Rivers Ice Locked

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.”

Kindness Fine Manners Thoughtful Exquisite Benevolence Breeding

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.”

People Way Heart Hard Facts Form Natural Practice Kindness Fine Gratitude Loving Kindness Expressing Gratitude Benefactors Forms Of Love Natural Forms

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.”

Kindness Dog Fine Tails Wags

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.”

Thinking Way Years Wells Might Left Bits Animal Numbers Kindness Worry Nice Fine Eating Red Treats Down And Killing Productions Billions Vegetarian Being Nice Wrenches Herring Red Herrings

Author:Mark Bittman

“A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.”

Heart Moments Earth Heaven Kindness Generations Example Produce Fine Hundred Harmony Mood Purity Taoism Heaven And Earth

Author:Zicheng Hong

“As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.”

Ifs Thinking Might Courses Lines Kindness Path Awareness Fine Blessing Tough Tradition Method Indifference Dull Satire Fine Lines

Author:George Saunders

“Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”

Life Kindness Sweet Fine Lips Deeds Bitter Gentle Pleasant Talkers

Author:Rumi

“If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.”

Ifs Whole Kindness Cutting Fine Ears Shining Clouds Edges Whole Life Heal Tone Poison Insult Injury Knives Tenderness Echoes Consolation Ravens Dripping Foreshadowing Villette Answering The Call

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!”

Kindness Fine Wounds Tyrants Courtesy

Author:William Shakespeare