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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.
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired
friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis read more
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired
friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque
dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to read more
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses