Peach-coloured glass beads spill from a small bowl onto dark-green cloth.

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Joseph Joubert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Kindness, in this view, means giving people more love than they've earned. It isn't a reward for good behaviour but a generosity that goes past fairness. The speaker frames kindness as a deliberate surplus, a gift offered to someone regardless of whether they deserve it.

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