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What does it mean?
Kindness communicates effectively with everyone regardless of their physical limitations.
In plain terms
Being kind speaks to everyone, even those who cannot see or hear.
What can you take from it?
Use kindness to connect with all people effectively.

Where it applies

  • interpersonal conflict
  • community building
  • daily interactions

Putting it to work

  • smile at a stranger
  • hold a door
  • offer help quietly

Questions to consider

  • How can you show kindness today?
  • Who needs kindness right now?

Another view

Kindness alone cannot solve systemic barriers.

More from Mark Twain

  1. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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  2. Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him.

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  3. I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

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