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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
- William Law
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
- William Saroyan
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- Cicero
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.
- Clay Aiken
So if you've had a good time tonight, or if you've had a good time any night, for gosh sake's why not drop a dollar in the mail to me?
- Lily Tomlin
The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?
- Laurence Sterne
Mother Teresa once said, "Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile." ... The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study.
- Rick Warren
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
- Vance Havner
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
- Vernon Howard
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- Henry David Thoreau