I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses

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.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
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He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]

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.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and read more

On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

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.