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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile
- Mother Teresa
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds;
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words and kind deeds
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
Keep a clear eye towards life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received - but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage
- St Francis of Assisi
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
Man's Sacred Trust: Not to hurt our humble brethren (animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it
- St Francis of Assisi
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld
- Henry Williamson
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation
- Joseph Addison
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
Soft lies the turf on one who finds his rest
Here on our common mother's ample breast.
Unstained by meanness, avarice and pride,
He never flattered and he never lied;
No gluttonous excess his slumber broke,
No burning alcohol, no stifling smoke;
He ne'er intrigued a rival to displace,
He ran, but never betted on, a race.
Content with harmless sports and moderate food,
Boundless in love, in faith, in gratitude;
Happy the man - if there be such? -
Of whom his epitaph can say as much.
- Unattributed
'Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity and all the virtues of a man without the vices.'
[From a stone in an Aberdeeenshire churchyard in memory of 'Pompey']
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
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