Kindness

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on kindness: "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed Oscar Romero quote on kindness: "God is in your own heart."

Blessed Oscar Romero

Blaise Pascal quote on kindness: "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Blaise Pascal

Origen quote on kindness: "The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace much."

Origen

Mark Twain quote about kindness: "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain

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