Great Throughts Treasury

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Albert Schweitzer

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

Kindness | Mistrust |

T’ai-p’ing-ching [Classic of the Highest Peace or Book of Supreme Peace] by Yü Chi NULL

Of all the love, kindness and pleasure a man can experience in this world, nothing is more beautiful than the love of a woman. If it is granted him, and the two have a child together, they are fused in a single heart in the child, which is truly the most pleasing thing love and kindness can give, and this will always be a bond between them.

Experience | Heart | Kindness | Love | Man | Nothing | Pleasure | Will | Woman | World | Child |

Henry Burton

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

Kindness |

Julia Alvarez

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Kindness |

Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Comfort | Heart | Kindness | Life | Life | Little |

Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Beginning | Care | Kindness | Life | Life | Understanding | Will |

Albert Schweitzer

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

Kindness | Mistrust |

Anita Roddick

Kindness [has the] power to create change, to make things happen. And in a period of human history in which we are obsessed with change - personal or political - and are unsure whether it is possible at all, kindness could be our salvation.

Change | History | Kindness | Power | Salvation |

Amelia Earhart, fully Amelia Mary Earhart

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Action | Example | Good | Kindness | Work |

Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

A brilliant achievement may win for you the favor of a people at one stroke; but to earn the love and respect of the population that surrounds you, a long succession of little services rendered and of obscure good deeds, a constant habit of kindness and an established reputation for disinterestedness will be required.

Achievement | Deeds | Good | Habit | Kindness | Little | Love | People | Reputation | Respect | Will | Respect |

Author Unknown NULL

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creatures, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Good | Kindness | Neglect | World |

Author Unknown NULL

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Kindness | Will |

Author Unknown NULL

The fool mistakes power for virtue, acclaim for merit, nonconformity for dangerousness, conviction for truth, revenge for justice, license for liberty, and kindness for weakness.

Justice | Kindness | Liberty | Merit | Power | Revenge | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Weakness |

Benjamin Jowett

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Action | Health | Justice | Kindness | Learning | Unique | Wealth |

Charles Kuralt

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Greed | Kindness |