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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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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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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. ↗

— Sharon Stone

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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

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