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“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
“The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love, There Is God
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
“Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.” Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Kind? . . . How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“no man grows rich by kindness.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, and time to speak it in; you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people . . . You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Let us make that one point—that no child will be unwanted and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.” Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love, There Is God
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.” Jane Austen, Emma
“There's place and means for every man alive.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.” Jack London, Martin Eden
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake—especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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