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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.