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Tag Name "Kindness" (1461)

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye it transcends speech it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
Isaac of Nineveh
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I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
Susan Meissner
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No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Ovid
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Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
Markus Zusak
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
Viktor E. Frankl
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
Marcel Proust
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Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.
Swami Vivekananda
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The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.
Bob Kerrey
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
Bel Kaufman
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
Robert Breault
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Dodie Smith
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Samuel Johnson
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Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
Aeschylus
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Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
Charles Spurgeon
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
Sophocles
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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
Robert Breault
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
Charles de Lint
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Wit is an intermittent fountain kindness is a perennial spring.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Every single human being is created in the image of God created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
Heidi Baker
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
Jane Austen
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To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.
Cassandra Clare
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