#kindness

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

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You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. ↗

— Washington Irving

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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

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Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ↗

— Tara Brach

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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