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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault



If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope



Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson



A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon



It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown



Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown



What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. ~Cleveland Amory



If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama





I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling



Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger



Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown



A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein



Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain



Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca



A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb



Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson



There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius



Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author Unknown



The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye



When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain



Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone,Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in your own.~Adam Lindsay Gordon



How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver



You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden



Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown



If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson



By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill



Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark



The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ~Author Unknown



The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt



We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus



One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb



Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright Edelman



Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia



A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb




We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Have you had a kindness shown?Pass it on;'Twas not given for thee alone,Pass it on;Let it travel down the years,Let it wipe another's tears,'Til in Heaven the deed appears -Pass it on.~Henry Burton, Pass It On



Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown



Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit



Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino



If every man's internal careWere written on his brow,How many would our pity shareWho raise our envy now?~Peitro Metastasio



Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown



A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller



Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738



Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social Aims



The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell



If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp



To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~Max Beerbohm



One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington



The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard



Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson



The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity



Love someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author Unknown



The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah



There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarland



The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson



If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken



Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie



In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland



How far that little candle throws his beams!So shines a good deed in a weary world.~William Shakespeare



I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn



The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli



How beautiful a day can beWhen kindness touches it!~George Elliston



Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life



Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie



If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis