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The Kindness of Strangers
and other folk
- There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. — Bernard Meltzer
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. —Mother Teresa
- If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." — William Penn
- You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — Ruth Smeltzer
- It is never too late to be what we might have been. —George Eliot
- Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness. —Seneca
- The best portions of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and love. —William Wordsworth
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. —Mark Twain
- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. —Anonymous
* The title of our Kindness quotes page is taken from the play by Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire:
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." —Blanche DuBois
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