Quotes

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I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when
nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one
millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.
-B. C. Forbes

 

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All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of
giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
-Kahlil Gibran

 

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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
-Albert Einstein

 

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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
-Albert Schweitzer

 

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

 

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

 

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I choose kindness...I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone.
Kind to the rich, for they are afraid.
And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me.
-Max Lucado

 

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness
causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-Albert Schweitzer

 

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God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.
-The Apostle Paul (Ro. 2:4)

 

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
-Frederick W. Faber
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We are never more like Jesus than when we are choked with compassion for others.
-Unknown

 

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
-Frederick W. Faber
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Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
-The Apostle Paul (Col 3:12)

 

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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the
Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds himself liking more and
more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined
himself liking at the beginning.
-C.S. Lewis

 

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A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world:
everyone you meet is your mirror.
-Ken Keyes Jr.

 

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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the
whole world and say 'God is, was, and ever shall be'"
-Mahatma Gandhi

 

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi

 

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The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty,
understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And
those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness,
egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire
the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
-John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

 

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed ... The cost of one modern
bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two
electric power plants. ... It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. We pay
for a single fighter plane with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for
a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed 8,000 people."
-Dwight Eisenhower

 

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who
want crops without plowing the ground.
-Frederick Douglass (abolitionist, editor and orator (1817-1895))