Kindness

(246 votes)   Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(383 votes)   Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(364 votes)   "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

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(342 votes)   Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(285 votes)   Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(246 votes)   Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(236 votes)   Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

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(229 votes)   We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(223 votes)   A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(220 votes)   The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Robert Alan

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(217 votes)   The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Robert Alan

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(216 votes)   To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(213 votes)   Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(206 votes)   The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet

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(178 votes)   Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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