Saturday, June 27, 2015

Heart to give


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown


Open your heart — open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted inBelieve: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit


Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can. ~Andrew Iskander


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino


If every man's internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
Who raise our envy now?
~Peitro Metastasio


Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author Unknown


A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller


Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way. ~Lama Willa Miller


Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738


There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson,Social Aims


The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell


Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade. ~Terri Guillemets


If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp


To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~Max Beerbohm


One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


In order to be remembered, leave nothing behind but goodness. ~Yogi® Tea


Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson


The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est — this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity


Love someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author Unknown


Kind people are the best kind of people. ~Author Unknown


The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag. ~Ram Dass


Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah


There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Kenneth McFarland


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, onrbrault.blogspot.com


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston


When you can be the sunshine in someone's life, or the warm rain, why would you be the cold north wind? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life


Dear Lord, may I ever refrain
      From speaking ill of others;
      May I have kindly thoughts, as well,
      For all my earthly brothers!
May I, dear Heavenly Father,
      Radiate pure love for all...
May I see good in everyone;
      May I pray for those in woe...
If I can do these things, O Lord,
      While I am here on this earth,
      I'll feel my life's not been in vain—
      That I was blessed at my birth!
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Blessed at Birth" (1940s)


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie


If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis

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