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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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The best I had, a princess wrought it me--
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head,
And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,
Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
There's no dearth of kindness
In the world of ours;
Only in our blindness
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There's no dearth of kindness
In the world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers.
