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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