Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. BarrieRead
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Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
Let us be kinder to one another.
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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