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Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes about Kindness

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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness, Sorrow, Knows
Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness, Salt, Moments
Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Naomi Shihab Nye
Kindness, Shadow, World
Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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