At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.

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There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

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Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.

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If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.

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People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

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When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.

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Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

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Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

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It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.

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As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.

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The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.

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The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.

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So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

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My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.

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Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.

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So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

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Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.

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You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.

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I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.

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Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.

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Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

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Kindness is a girl's best friend.

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Kindness is still the best antidote.

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Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

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The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

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I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

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What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

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If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

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Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

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Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

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The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

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Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

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Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?

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Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all.

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Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.

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Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

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Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

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The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.

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Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

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One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.

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Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

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I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

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Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

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Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)

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To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

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Heaven's currency is friendship.

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Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.

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Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.

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The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.

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If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

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If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

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My favorite words in the world are t

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What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!

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