Friday, January 11, 2008

Kindness

  • "I expect to pass through this 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
  • "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "A kind word can warm three Winter months." - Japanese Proverb
  • "That best portion of a good man's life are his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - Williams Wordsworth
  • "Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." -William Shakespeare
  • "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hositility to evaporate." - Albert Schweitzer
  • "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." - Sir Arthur Helps
  • "Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning." - Frederick W. Faber
  • "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind." - Marcus Aurelius
  • "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot
  • "Kindness begets kindness." - Sophocles

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