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  • #1
    J.M. Barrie
    “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our hearth.”
    Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, mesnevi

  • #3
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #4
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    Aristotle

  • #5
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #6
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #9
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #11
    Sanober  Khan
    “Sometimes I think,
    I need a spare heart to feel
    all the things I feel.”
    Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

  • #12
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    Leo Buscaglia

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #15
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

  • #18
    Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to
    “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

  • #19
    Kahlil Gibran
    “To belittle, you have to be little.”
    Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

  • #20
    Mother Teresa
    “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
    Mother Teresa, A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations

  • #21
    Jack Kerouac
    “One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #22
    “Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
    Mary Schmich

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Gautama Buddha
    “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

    [Verse 223]”
    Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”
    Lao-Tzu

  • #26
    Francis of Assisi
    “For it is in giving that we receive.”
    St. Francis of Assisi

  • #27
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    Robert Ingersoll

  • #28
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #29
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

  • #30
    Rupi Kaur
    “it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
    Rupi Kaur



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