http://www.actsofkindness.org/ here is the site...a lot of neat things on here..hugs, cheryl
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Author:Helen Keller
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"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway."
Author:Mother Teresa
"Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us."
Author:Henri-Frederic Amiel
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"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on."
Author:Henry Burton
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"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."
Author:Henry David Thoreau
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Author:Henry James
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"Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds."
Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find--you're"
Author:Herbert V. Prochnow
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"We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring."
Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."
Author:Hindu Proverb
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"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth."
Author:Irish Proverb
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"Do good and care not to whom."
Author:Italian Proverb
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"Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. "
Author:Itivuttaka Sutta
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"A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance...."
Author:Jack Kornfield
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
Author:James Matthew Barrie
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"Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an opportunity to feel pride in who they are and in what they do."
Author:Janice, Teacher, NJ
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"One kind word can warm three winter months."
Author:Japanese Proverb
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"It really is much easier to help people and causes than what most people seem to think. You just go out and take that first step and things start falling in place. If they don't, you change direction, but you never pull over and park!"
Author:Jason Crowe, founder (at age 11) of The Cello Cries On, Inc.
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Author:Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles."
Author:John Hall
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"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding."
Author:John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can."
Author:John Wesley
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"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
Author:Kahlil Gibran
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Author:Kahlil Gibran
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"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."
Author:Katherine Francke
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give."
Author:Katherine Hepburn
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"When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down behavior, Random Acts of Kindness works beautifully."
Author:Kathy, Teacher, CA
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"There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."
Author:Lady Borton
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"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love."
Author:Lao-Tzu
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"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
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 a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."
Author:Leo Buscaglia
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"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."
Author:Leo Buscaglia
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"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot."
Author:Leroy Jack Syrop
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"A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation. "
Author:Lin Hsiu Nei
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"Kindness is free, so why not give some out?"
Author:Lisandra Piercey (13), RAK member
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"It's only me, but I can change a life."
Author:Liz, high school student
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"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind."
Author:Malaysian Proverb
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"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
Author:Marcus Aurelius
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"Appreciation can make a day - even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
Author:Margaret Cousins
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Author:Margaret Mead
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Author:Marian Wright-Edelman
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"Change the world one act of kindness at a time. Remember, our kindness is our power!"
Author:Maribel - RAK Kindness Coordinator
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
Author:Mark Twain
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Author:Mark Twain
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?""
Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Author:Maya Angelou
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"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."
Author:Mohammed
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"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway."
Author:Mother Teresa
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Author:Mother Teresa
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
Author:Mother Teresa
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"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."
Author:Mother Teresa
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"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
Author:Mother Teresa
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"Generosity: Give it. Got it? Good!"
Author:Ms. Sommer's Scholars 2006-2007
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"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
Author:Nonpareil
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"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most."
Author:Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist
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"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."
Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
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"Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a "Hey, look what we did!" feeling."
Author:Patrick, Teacher, PA
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"It has taken a long time for me to learn to open my heart to kindness, but the journey was well worth it."
Author:Paula S., RAK Member
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"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
Author:Pema Chodron
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"After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less gossip, more openness and honesty."
Author:Peter, Teacher, NM
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"Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a direct connection between their deeds and the reactions of others."
Author:Peter, Teacher, NM
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"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Author:Plato
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"Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Author:Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)
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"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
Author:Publilius Syrus
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"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
Author:R. Foreman
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help."
Author:Ram Dass
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"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy."
Author:Randolph Ray
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"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
Author:Richard Dehmel
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"Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips."
Author:Richard F. Schubert
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"I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the foundation of what a safe community is based on."
Author:Rita, Education Administrator, CO
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
Author:Robert Kennedy
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"Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness."
Author:S. Cohen
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"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
Author:S. H. Simmons
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"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Author:Sally Koch
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"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
Author:Samuel Johnson
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"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
Author:Samuel Johnson
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"Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate."
Author:Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93
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"Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' — that reaching out to them in a friendly way — could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.' I live by that."
Author:Sara, high school student
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"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
Author:Sathya Sai Baba
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"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Author:Scott Adams
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
Author:Seneca, philosopher (4 BC)
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"In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free to ask questions."
Author:Sherry, Teacher, MS
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
Author:Sophocles (447 BC)
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"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
Author:Sophocles
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"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
Author:St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader
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"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
Author:Stephen Jay Gould
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"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
Author:Stephen Grellet, Quaker missionary
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"I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result."
Author:Sting
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"Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments."
Author:The Talmud
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"Kindness is a tool that everyone possesses but some choose to leave it in their tool box. Take it out and use it today."
Author:Teresa A. Vitelli, RAK Member
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"Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit."
Author:Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities — those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness."
Author:Thich Nhat Hanh
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"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
Author:Thomas Jefferson
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"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past."
Author:Tyron Edwards
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"We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness."
Author:Unknown
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"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Author:Unknown
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"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
Author:Unknown
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"Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code."
Author:Unknown
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"Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how."
Author:Unknown
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"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are."
Author:Unknown
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"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
Author:Unknown
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"Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive."
Author:Unknown
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"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."
Author:Unknown
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"Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness."
Author:Unknown
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"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. "
Author:Unknown
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"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong."
Author:Unknown
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"Kindness comes from different directions... kindness comes to you, through you and from you. It's just a matter of when you want to start!"
Author:Vangie Fuentes, RAK member
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"There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock."
Author:Warren G. Harding
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"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Author:Washington Irving
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"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
Author:Whoopi Goldberg
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"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire."
Author:Whoopi Goldberg
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
Author:William John Bennett
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"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
Author:William Shakespeare
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"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. "
Author:William Shakespeare
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"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
Author:William Wordsworth
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"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Author:Winston Churchill
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"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways."
Author:Zadik
