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“By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.”

Book Dark Kindness Seeds Tiny Chivalry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“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.”

Ifs Persons Understanding Chance Compassion Kindness Environment Seeds Exposed Loving Kindness Loving Person

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.”

Ifs Eye Steps Kindness Failing Seeds Rejoice Perfume Pathways

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.”

Hands Kindness Machines Seeds

Book:Knocking the neighbors

Source: Knocking the neighbors

“He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.”

Persons Doe Kindness Products Seeds Impression Former Sand Latter Seals Ungrateful Ungrateful Person

Author:Robert South

“Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.”

“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”

Ifs Knows Years Self Lasts Compassion Kindness Know How Longing Seeds Mask Warmth Nurture Coldness Hardness

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.”

Fear Understanding Water Quality Compassion Kindness Anger Positivity Seeds Resolution Loving Kindness Win Win

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.”

Compassion Kindness Eating Seeds Buddhist Meat Vegetarian Vegan Animal Rights Vegetarianism Animal Compassion Eating Meat Meat Eating

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!”

“We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.”

Mind May Littles Fall Grows Kindness Growing Up Bears Spring Fruit Seeds Expenses Courtesy Bosoms Benevolence

Book:Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified

Source: Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified

“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