“We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”
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Plato
3 quotes“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Albert Schweitzer
3 quotes“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
William Wordsworth
3 quotes“That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
Simone de Beauvoir
3 quotes“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation an...”
Dalai Lama
3 quotes“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
St. Francis of Assisi
2 quotes“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
Anne Frank
2 quotes“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
Horace Mann
2 quotes“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
Cher
2 quotes“There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
Mother Teresa
2 quotes“Give, but give until it hurts.”
Indira Gandhi
2 quotes“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Charlie Chaplin
2 quotes“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”