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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B.C. Forbes

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child

The dog, he thought, was wiser and more kindly natured than he was. — John Flanagan

Force does not necessarily have to be cruel; it is strongest when it does not take advantage of its power, and is kindly. — Vicente Blasco Ibanez

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. — John Sharp Williams

To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. — Thomas A Kempis

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. — Frank Herbert

Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,' he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you shall be alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. — Paul Gray

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade. — George Eliot

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth. — Charles Edward Montague

Kindly answer my question. Am I late? — E. M. Forster

And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. — Kim Harrison

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson

Oh, most think he's barking, the potty wee lad, but some are more kindly and think he's just sad, but Peevesy knows better and says that he's mad. — J.K. Rowling

We can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly. — Brene Brown

Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer. — Wendell Berry

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly. — Homer

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. — Thomas Carlyle

This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended. — John Muir

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man. — Louis Sullivan

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. — Ogden Nash

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works. — William Gouge

Gently to hear, kindly to judge." - SHAKESPEARE. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate. — Rick Warren

You will kindly bite your tongue, Eleanor." "Or you will bite it for me? — Kiersten White

Kindly confirm: If someone's evil, then killing them isn't murder. It's SLAYING, and not only legal but encouraged. Correct? — Laini Taylor

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid! — William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. — David Gemmell

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. — Wallace D. Wattles

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath. — Michael Moorcock

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor. — J.K. Rowling

You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond. — James Francis

Time is a kindly God. — Sophocles

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious. — Ford Madox Ford

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. — Mencius

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. — Danielle Steel

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain

Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. — Khalil Gibran

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha

TALK TO ALL THOSE YOU MEET. BEFRIEND THE FRIENDLESS. SPEAK KINDLY. — Peter O'Malley

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless. — Chief Seattle

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. — Barbara Kingsolver

To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing.
Rosemary Curtis Neider — Valerie J. Steimle

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell — Mervyn Peake

I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses. — Anna Wintour

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't. — Don Roff

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses. — Mason Cooley

Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one. — Zadie Smith

You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me. — Patricia Briggs

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill. — Ian McEwan

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am? — Oscar Wilde

shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend. — H.G.Wells

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. — Moliere

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. — Charles M. Schwab

A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them ... — George R R Martin

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood. — Lois Greiman

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. — James Joyce

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity. — Byron Katie

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. — Vaclav Havel

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

True courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. — Julia McNair Wright

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down, he observed kindly. — Robin Hobb

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. — Alexander Pope

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana

The man chuckled. "You would do well to speak kindly of her. She will be your Queen before long.
"Over my dead body," Rose snapped. — Brandi Gillilan

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. — Gore Vidal

Live simply, love seriously, care deeply, speak kindly ... leave the rest to God. — Joanne Clancy

This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth. — P.G. Wodehouse

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? — Aeschylus

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness — Confucius

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. — Alexander Pope

His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. — Anonymous

Gently to hear, kindly to judge. — William Shakespeare

Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar — Takahashi Keitarou

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

A person has to show some spirit
fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits. — Daniel Woodrell

To actively improve the world
and change your life as well,
speak all the good you know,
and all the bad refuse to tell. — Richelle E. Goodrich

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. — George Santayana

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. — Abdu'l- Baha

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on. — John Henry Newman

Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck. — Julian May

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. — Robert Graves

What is luck, my friend?" Julian replied kindly. "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity. — Robin S. Sharma

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. — Mason Cooley

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting. — Patrick Ness

She doubted he'd take too kindly to her fighting with them, no matter how much he liked having her in his bed. — Stacia Kane

His words and ensuing actions - fleeing instead of fighting - had indeed put a bit of doubt in the kindly elf's not-so-closed mind. — R.A. Salvatore

Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater. — Lloyd Alexander

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. — John Armstrong

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep. — Dave Matthews

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . — John Adams

PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason. — Billy London

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me. — Mindy Kaling

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all. — Elizabeth Moon