#kindness

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)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#guilt #kindness #retribution #guilt

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#kindness

There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humanity #kindness #perfection #buddhism

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare. ↗

— Mike McIntyre

#helping-others #kindness #strangers #charity

Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#religious-faith #faith

May all that have life be delivered from suffering ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #life #life

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive. ↗

— Merce Cardus

#kindness #inspirational

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#baseness #brutality #comrades #encountered #frankness

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#appreciated #day #end #end of the day #guess