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.

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?'

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

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.

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.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our read more

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.