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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Kindness

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Be the kind of person you would like to be with.
Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.
Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]
Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.
By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
Fair and softly goes far.
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, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.
If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.
Kindness begets kindness.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Kindness has more power than compulsion.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Kindness is wisdom.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Kindness out of season destroys authority.
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
One kind word can warm 3 winter months.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.