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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.
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Contribution #3812
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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It always seemed strange to me that 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, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
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What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.
--remarks about the children's story, "The Emperor's New Clothes."
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Freethought Today
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Le Guin: Look! There Is No Emperor!
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Contribution #3713
Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same.
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The Greatest Salesman in the World
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Contribution #3710
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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When helping the wounded, Honesty is secondary to Healing!
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Contribution #3631
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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To be affectionately detached—that is a power. That is a wisdom. That is a love greater than any emotional love, a love born of understanding.
Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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Dresden Edition of the 12 Volume's of the teachings of Robert G. Ingersoll
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, Dresden, N.Y.
, 1922 (?)
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Contribution #3403
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
I seek great wisdoms, and then find the small ones, unbidden, more profound. Like kindness.
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The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2619
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing 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.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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"The Lion and the Mouse"
Contribution #2312
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.
I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are.
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That best portion of a good man's life:
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
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Proverbs
15:25
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Contribution #1905
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalm
68:5
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Contribution #1904
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
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Deuteronomy
10:17-18
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Contribution #1903
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
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Exodus
22:21-23
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Contribution #1902
Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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The Power of Ethical Management
by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale
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Contribution #1645
Softness overcomes hardness.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 208
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
, New York
, 2003
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Contribution #1614
A kind man sees kindness, the wise man sees wisdom
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 136
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
, New York
, 2003
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Contribution #1596
He who receives kindness should never forget it;
but he who performs it should never remember it
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1454
Kindness
is giving others happiness.
Compassion
is removing others' bitterness.
Joy
is freeing others from suffering.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1448
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good--and how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Brilliance: Uncommon Voices from Uncommon Women
by Susan Scott Dan Zadra
Page 60
Published by Compendium Publishing
, Lynnwood, WA, USA
, 2005
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Contribution #1407
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been
kindness, beauty and truth.
He
who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The only
true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily
protection or kindness.
What does the Lord require of us? To seek justice. To love kindness. To walk humbly with our God.
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Micah 6:8
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Contribution #743
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785
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Contribution #659
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . .
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Robert Ingersoll
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Contribution #658
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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Confucius
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Contribution #655
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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14th Dalai Lama
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Contribution #652
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
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14th Dalai Lama
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Contribution #651
Fair and softly goes far.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Contribution #631
If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
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Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya
by Bhikkhu Bodhi and Nyanaponika Bodhi
Page 36
Published by Altamira Press
, 1999
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Contribution #607
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
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With kindness, with love and compassion, with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
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Tenzin Gyatso - 14th Dalai Lama
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Contribution #339
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
What does kindness look like in a person?
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