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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." -- Dr. Albert Schweitzer "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) "Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." -- Charles Spencer "Power is the ability to do good things for others." -- Brooke Astor "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom." -- Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom" "In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can." -- William Barclay "When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away." -- Don Hutson, Sales Trainer "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill "A good intention clothes itself with power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good." -- Tillotson "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." -- Mark Twain "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." -- Hadia Bejar "Compassion suffers with the suffering of the other, while the sweetness refuses to produce it or to increase it." -- André Comte-Sponville "Possess a heart that never hardens, a temperament that never presses, and a touch that never hurts." -- Charles Dickens "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but reveal to him his own." -- Benjamin Disraeli "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." -- Peyton Conway March "Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, and learning." -- Anonymous "The forces of good in the world are immobilized less by their adversaries than by their sleep." -- E. N. Poteat "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." --  Leo Buscaglia "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -- Voltaire "Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence." -- Mahatma Gandhi "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." -- Antonio Porchia "You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." -- Ruth Smeltzer "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson