Quotes About Kindness

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.

I tried to comfort him by explaining that when we really spend time with any living beings—as he had with the ants—we find out that they are real. They are changing, animated, hungry, social. Like us, their life is fragile and they want to stay alive. His playmates hadn't had the chance to get to know ants in the way he did, I told him. If they had, they wouldn't want to injure them either.

we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

some days i need to forgive myself over and over — twenty times, thirty times. i usually don't need a formal meditation to do so; i simply recognize that i'm judging or disliking myself and bring compassion to the pain i'm feeling. i consciously hold the intention to let go of blame and try to be more kind to myself.

In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva.

Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti.

Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He

That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: "God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.

This was, I realized, similar to Winifred's position. But we came at it from opposite directions—I from that of being more interested in reveling in the good in people and not wasting time with those who had none to offer, while she preferred slander and mockery. I'd never once heard her compliment anyone. When had a kind word ever escaped her hard lips? Misery was her trade and I wanted no part of it.

Manibus date lilia plenis. Give lilies with full hands.

As Shantideva writes in this beautiful prayer: As long as space endures As long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I too remain To dispel the miseries of the world.

13 Judge not, that you be not judged: condemn not, that you be not condemned: 14 forgive, and it shall be forgiven you: release, and you shall be released: give, that you may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust into your 15 bosoms.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads.

With the help of God I shall be kinder than my brother, and shall strive for virtue. It is my duty to aspire above my human nature.'"*

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

This teaching has reached almost all civilized countries, to their disaster, for law and justice and mercy and kindness are not rooted in men, but in God, and without Him they cannot truly exist, Him who made them. Man is only the receptacle of grace; he is not grace itself.

Never wanted this, never want to see you hurt.

Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends...

Why you gotta be so mean?

Someday I'll be living in a big old city And all you're ever gonna be is mean Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.