 | "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
, The Lion and the Mouse. |
| "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
- Albert Einstein
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| There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.
-
Anonymous. |
| "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
- Cicero
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| "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
- Confucius
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| "Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
- Confucius
, The Confucian Analects. |
| "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that 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."
- Ettiene De Grellet
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| "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
- George Sand
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| "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
- Tennessee Williams
, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). |
| "Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
- William Shakespeare
, "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 5. |