Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. – Hafez

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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. ― Joseph Stalin

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Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

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Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. – Bob Kerrey

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You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box. — Duchess Meghan

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Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

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I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep. ― Kristin Cashore

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Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ― Ralph Ellison

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Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

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