Quotes About Kindness

There's gotta be kindness after pain. Forgiveness.

Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.

Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, "You have all been most kind.

It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it. Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time.

In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.

They were kind people who thought they meant well. They'd been government-selected as fit parents, certified as people of good moral character who could teach good patriotic values.

in Mia's accepting presence she'd become curious and kind and open, as if under a magic spell. She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

?yilik eden mükafat bekliyorsa, tefecidir.

?yilik, yola dü?en, yoldan toplanan bir ?ey de?ildir. Tesadüfen ele geçen bir ?ey de de?ildir. ?nsan iyili?i ancak ba?ka bir insandan ö?renir.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Hepimiz kötü ÅŸeyler düÅŸünürüz, ama pek seyrek kötülük yapabiliriz. Hepimiz iyi ÅŸeyler yapabiliriz, ama iyi ÅŸeyler düÅŸünebilenlerimiz pek azd?r.

You don't have to rush out to become the mayor of your city or the president of the United States in order to help others, but you can begin with your relatives and friends and the people around you. In fact, you can start with yourself. The important point is to realize that you are never off duty.

We cannot be truly peaceful unless we have the invincible quality of peace within us; a feeble or temporary peacefulness could always be disturbed. If we try to be kind and peaceful in a naive way, encountering a different or unexpected situation might interfere with our awareness of peace because that peace has no strength in it, has no character. So peace must be stable, deeprooted, and solid.

Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time.

The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself. In the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time. We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world. (p. 10)

Action without compassion is like planting a dead tree. It will never grow. But any action that contains compassion is planting a living tree that grows endlessly and never dies. Or even if the tree dies, it always leaves a seed behind, which will grow into another tree. That organic quality of compassion goes on and on and on.

sleeping—you should always take the attitude of being of benefit to all sentient beings.

4. Not correcting those who are heedless

reads: [1] May their evil deeds ripen in me. May all my virtue without exception ripen in them. [2] I offer all my profit and gain to sentient beings, those honorable ones; I will take on all loss and defeat. [3] May all the evil deeds and suffering of sentient beings ripen in me, and all my virtue and happiness ripen in sentient beings.

nyingje, which literally means "noble heart.

There are better ways to teach a child compassion.

Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.