One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
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