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It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

C. S. Lewis

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

Charles Dickens

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Hyacinthe Loyson

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Ian Maclaren

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

J. M. Barrie

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Martin Luther King

If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

Saint Augustine

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.

The noblest motive is the public good.

Virgil

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.

W. L. Sheldon

Whatever you are, be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

If evil becomes completely unbearable, it will destroy itself.

Aristotle

If there are winners then there must be losers, but it's not a zero sum game. If you set out to better yourself then it's a net positive for the world.

Jordan Peterson

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Society can be improved only by self-sacrifice.

Leo Tolstoy

The person you should strive to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

W. L. Sheldon

The true measure of a person's character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekanand

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.

You should do goodness without choosing to whom.

Leo Tolstoy

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It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.

Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.

The noblest motive is the public good.

The noblest motive is the public good.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.

If evil becomes completely unbearable, it will destroy itself.

If evil becomes completely unbearable, it will destroy itself.

If there are winners then there must be losers, but it's not a zero sum game. If you set out to better yourself then it's a net positive for the world.

If there are winners then there must be losers, but it's not a zero sum game. If you set out to better yourself then it's a net positive for the world.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Society can be improved only by self-sacrifice.

Society can be improved only by self-sacrifice.

The person you should strive to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

The person you should strive to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

The true measure of a person's character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them.

The true measure of a person's character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

They alone live, who live for others.

They alone live, who live for others.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.

What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it.

You should do goodness without choosing to whom.

You should do goodness without choosing to whom.

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