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Quotes About Kindness

We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
~ Yousuf Karsh
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~ Sophocles
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
~ Dada Vaswani
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
~ Benjamin Franklin
Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
~ A. A. Milne
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
~ Saadi
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~ Unknown
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.
~ Sangharakshita
It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.
~ Julia Roberts
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
~ Thomas Fuller
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
~ William Hazlitt
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
~ Plautus
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
~ A. A. Milne
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
~ Kurt Cobain
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
~ William Temple
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
~ Pema Chodron
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
~ George Harrison
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A road to a friend's house is never long.
~ Ann Richards
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
~ Friedrich Schiller
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
~ Aristotle
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
~ William Feather