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People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.