Thoughts—Kindness	
QUICK CHECK:
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.  For 
lovely eyes, see the good in people.  For a slim 
figure, share your food with the hungry.  
    —Sam Levenson
In helping others, we shall help ourselves; for 
whatever good we give out, completes the circle and 
comes back to us.   —Flora Edwards
Life is mostly froth and bubble but two things stand 
like stone —Kindness in another's trouble —
Courage in your own.  —Adam Gordon
The shortest distance between two people is a smile.   
    —Victor Borge	
If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind 
word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every 
unkind word, would you be rich or poor?     
       —Anonymous
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.   
       —Joseph Joubert
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of 
help is better than a pound of preaching.
       —Edward G. Lytton
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never 
know how soon it will be too late.
     —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is more than deeds.  Kindness is an 
attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.  It is 
anything that lifts another person.    —C. Neil Strait	
The true and noble way to kill a foe, 	
Is not to kill him.	
You, with kindness, may so change him,	
that he shall cease to be so,	
And then he’s slain.	
—Alain	
The way to make yourself pleasing to others is to 
show that you care for them.  The seeds of love can 
grow only under the warm and genial influence of 
kind feelings and affectionate manners.     
    —William Wirt
Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth (saying 
rude, inappropriate words), became so diplomatic 
(polite) as a man, so skilled at handling people that 
he was made U.S. ambassador to France.  The secret 
of his success?  "I will speak ill of no man," he said, 
"and speak all the good I know of everybody."
Do not be reckless with other people's hearts; and 
do not put up with people that are reckless with 
yours.        —Mary Schmich 	
1. Anonymous:  Would 	you	 be rich or poor?	
2. Joubert:  What is kindness?
3. Emerson:  a) When is it too soon to do a 
 kindness?  b) Why?
4. Strait:  List 4 words to describe kindness.
5. Wirt:  How do you make yourself pleasing to 	
others?	
6. What was Franklin: a) as a youth?  b) as a man?  	
c) What was the secret of his success?	
7. Levenson: For attractive lips and lovely eyes, 	
what should you do?	
8. Gordon: What 2 things stand like stone?
9. Borge: What is a smile?
10. a) Which quote do you like?  b) Why?
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