William Godwin: What are gold and jewels and precious utensils?...

Quote	What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to. Copy
Author	William Godwin
Category	Kindness
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Quote: Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.
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Author:
Holly Branson
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Kindness

Just imagine how different...

Quote: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Author:
Dalai Lama
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Kindness

This is my simple...

Quote: Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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Author:
George Sand
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Kindness

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Quote: Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
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Author:
Daniel Lubetzky
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Kindness

Kindness boggles my mind....

Quote: Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
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Author:
Tommy Lee Jones
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Kindness

Kindness and politeness are...

Quote: The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
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Author:
Mike Nichols
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Kindness

The degree to which...

Quote: I've been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company - simply out of their own interest and kindness.
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Author:
Jennifer Hyman
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Kindness

I've been humbled by...

Quote: I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
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Author:
Mayim Bialik
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Kindness

I don't want to...

Quote: Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Author:
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Kindness

Being popular comes when...

Quote: When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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Author:
Harold Kushner
Category:
Kindness

When you carry out...

Quote: I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
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Author:
Georg Brandes
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Kindness

I encountered among my...

Quote: There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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Author:
Dalai Lama
Category:
Kindness

There is no need...

Quote: The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
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Author:
George MacDonald
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Kindness

The first thing a...

Quote: Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.
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Author:
Michelle Obama
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Kindness

Fortunately, we have help...

Quote: Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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Author:
Marian Keyes
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Kindness

Love and kindness go...

Quote: Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
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Author:
Susan Hill
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Kindness

Kindness is a sort...

Quote: My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
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Author:
Pierce Brosnan
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Kindness

My religious philosophy is...

Quote: There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
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Author:
Arabella Weir
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Kindness

There is an inherent...

Quote: The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
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Author:
George Saunders
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Kindness

The universal human laws...

Quote: Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
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Author:
James Oliver
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Kindness

Industry, economy, honesty, and...

Quote: Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
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Author:
Susan Hill
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Kindness

Love has an enormous...

Quote: A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.
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Author:
Viv Albertine
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Kindness

A lot of the...

Quote: Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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Author:
Dan Millman
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Kindness

Saints were saints because...

Quote: The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
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Author:
Ann Cotton
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Kindness

The world has proved...

Quote: Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.
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Author:
Andie MacDowell
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Kindness

Kindness can come from...

Quote: I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.
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Author:
Jacqueline Woodson
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Kindness

I think people are...

Quote: There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Author:
Lady Gregory
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Kindness

There is lasting kindness...

Quote: I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
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Author:
Sofia Vergara
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Kindness

I guess at the...

Quote: I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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Author:
Carlos Santana
Category:
Kindness

I realized that it's...

Quote: What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Category:
Kindness

What money is better...

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