I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old read more

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. read more

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of read more

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

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?'

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito read more

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]

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.

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, read more

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.