Kindness
By Real Simple Editors Updated August 29, 2014
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Goethe
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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
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William John Bennett
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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The Dalai Lama
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Lao Tzu
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
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Mother Teresa
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It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.
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Cort Flint
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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Pema Chödrön
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
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Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Henry James