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As one of humankind’s cardinal virtues and most cherished social currencies, kindness – no doubt – is important. According to one hypothesis, pro-social traits like kindness may have even primed our species for the evolution of language. As children and as adults, we seek kindness from our friends and our mates. We spend our days giving and receiving kindness. We remember kindness, too, its trail of goodwill echoing through our memory banks like sweet perfume, long after the moment has passed. Kindness moves us. It nourishes and heals; strengthens and uplifts. A smile, a touch born of kindness can crack open the most rugged of hearts, unclench the tightest of fists. It has been hailed by poets, philosophers and spiritual leaders as a gift, a religion, a language audible to the deaf and visible to the blind, a weapon to fight evil, and mankind’s greatest delight. And now, science is showing just why the accolades ring true.
“Your ways are not my ways nor are your thoughts my thoughts, as high as the heavens are above the earth that’s how high my ways are above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts,” saith the Lord.
“Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.” - Mandy Hale-
“Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.” - Shannon L. Alder-
“The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.” - Maud Hart Lovelace-
“One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.” - Molly Friedenfeld-
“Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.” - Helen Keller-
“If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this.” - Molly Friedenfeld-
“When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.” - Richelle E. Goodrich-
“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” - Eric Hoffer-
“Kindness is not random, it is done on purpose” - Sonya Withrow-
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