You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
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Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, read more
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown.
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi read more
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without read more
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... 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, kindness.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. read more
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember read more
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the read more
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder
