Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
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