Talk:Kindness

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• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
  • Berthold Auerbach

• Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
  • Honoré de Balzac

• Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants.
  • Hugh Blair

• Be kind. Do good. Change the world for the better.
  • Louise Burfitt-Dons May 2010. Kindness Day UK website.

• True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to Him who made us, and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and the duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
  • Hugh Blair

• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
  • Confucius

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
  • Barbara De Angelis.

• Sticks and stones can build homes, but words can build up people.
  • James DeMaio

• I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other...How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
  • Henry Drummond

• We do not believe, or we forget, that "the Holy Ghost came down, not in shape of a vulture, but in the form of a dove."
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
  • Whoopi Goldberg

• Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
  • Robert Green Ingersoll

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
  • Washington Irving

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

• Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
  • Samuel Johnson

• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
  • Joseph Joubert

• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
  • Blaise Pascal

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
  • Saadi

• Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
  • C. Neil Strait

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

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
  • Mother Teresa

• A matter dealt with gently is sure to prosper, but a matter dealt with violently causes vexation.
  • Anonymous