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Kindness Quotes

The Dalai Lama and Ali, the fourth caliph, are at the top, with Shakespeare, Alice Bailey and Amit Ray. The sourced lines are not especially sweet. Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), thought it immoral to use private property to relieve the evils that private property causes, and Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming (1832), says never to apologize for showing feeling, since you are apologizing for truth.

The passage that begins “I expect to pass through this world but once” is credited to Stephen Grellet and marked disputed. The notes show that it was first printed in a June 1869 magazine, writing of an unnamed Quaker. Two jokes are flagged as well: the best government being a benevolent tyranny tempered by assassination (Voltaire) and a kind word with a gun going farther than a kind word alone (Al Capone).

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The more you do it [charity work], the more you realize how much you have to do it

Liya Kebede

I truly believe that the spirit of religious texts is communion and kindness and loving and treating each other the same

Wanuri Kahiu

Social protection must be seen not as charity, but as a cornerstone of development, through fostering economic vitality, societal unity, and gender parity

Maropene Ramokgopa

“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice” (p162)

Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits (1982)

charity is beyond reason, and that God can be known through charity.

Flannery O'Connor to Alfred Corn (1962)

Charity should be self-sustainable.

Ravi Shankar Interview with Forbes Magazine (2009)

Judaism – as has been said, albeit in a somewhat simplified way – is the religion of hope; the Christianity of charity; the islamism of faith. (p. 191)

Vittorio Messori

My question here is why do we humans keep doing this to each other or to ourselves? Why do we think so little about the role of humanity and of kindness?

Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Buffalo Rising interview (2007)

I have achieved a lot as Miss Rwanda, most especially in the way I have worked with the youth as well as the several charity projects I was involved in

Aurore Mutesi Kayiranga

I believe in goodness
Mercy and charity
I believe in a universal spirit
I believe in casting bread
Upon the waters

Leonard Nimoy

Transformation: Compassion and loving kindness can transform an enemy into a friend, while right view and wisdom can transform suffering into happiness.

Thích Nhật Từ Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)

Hey guys, It's me Tyler here with Esmeralda. I adopted her from Mexico. She doesn't know english yet. I donated to charity too, I'm really a good guy.

Tyler, the Creator

[I] wrote to anybody I knew who had any connection at all with charities to say I wanted a job, but had no experience.

Frances Perkins A Woman Unafraid (1993)

The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy

Geoffrey Hill

‘Don Camillo, the system of teaching Christian charity by knocking people over the head is one that doesn’t appeal to me,’ the Lord answered severely.

Giovannino Guareschi Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)

We can’t talk about that here. I think that is my past and long gone. We should not focus on my past. I am in Kenya for charity.

Kajala Masanja

Remember kindness in business & in life

Judith Clegg Judith Clegg impresses at first Business Stories event (2017)

Charities had to get smarter and have stepped up to the challenge

Vin Murria

Around the child bend all the three
Sweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.
Around the man bend other faces;
Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Walter Savage Landor

I live and breathe sustainability. Whatever I do, it needs to live. I don’t like the word charity

Susan Mboya

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