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A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing read more
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. read more
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.
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
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
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.]
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts read more
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and read more
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
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.
