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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins
Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.
Zadik
Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Caring is a powerful business advantage.
Scott Johnson
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Ambrose Bierce
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Randolph Ray
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
Plautus
When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.
Steve Maraboli
Pay bad people with you goodness; fight their hatred with you kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Leo Tolstoy
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship 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 kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
