What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
