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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
Humphrey Davy
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
“Forget injuries; never forget kindness.”
Confucius
“Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Joss Whedon
“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”
Aristotle
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read”
Mark Twain
“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge”
William Shakespeare
“He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself”
James Matthew Barrie