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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Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.

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Kindness is a girl's best friend.

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Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

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I could really use someone else's smile today.

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Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

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If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

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Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

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Kindness is still the best antidote.

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Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

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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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I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her.tI guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.

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A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

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Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

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One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?

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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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Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart. Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man.

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Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

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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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