Topic: Perspective
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It's Christmas weekend. Be nice. Be kind.
"It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts." - Addison Walker
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about." - Anne Sullivan
"One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be." - Anthony Dymoke Powell
"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others." - Doug Larson
"It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away." - Michael Arlen
"When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." - Henry James
"In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly." - Lao-Tse
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'" - Aldous Huxley
"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true." - Robert Brault
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble." - Rudyard Kipling
"Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer." - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." - Samuel Johnson
"If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind." - Alfred Fripp
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." - H.L. Mencken
"If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach." - Willie Davis
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are nice." - Terry Pratchett, Sorcery
Posted by Alan at 10:58 PST
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