Quotes About Kindness

the essence of compassionate speech or compassionate action is to be there for people, without pulling back in horror or fear or anger.

With great kindness and love, out of your own experience of what's possible, you give them the wisdom that somebody else probably gave you the day before when you were miserable. You encourage them not to buy into their self-pity but to realize that it's an opportunity to grow, and that everybody goes through this experience. In other words, the sangha are people committed to helping one another to take off their armor, by not encouraging their weakness

Booker T. Washington was right when he said, "Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him.

From this point of view, the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep. Right now—in the very instant of groundlessness—is the seed of taking care of those who need our care and of discovering our goodness.

At the end of the talk, I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh springwater. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but use them to benefit others.

Pema Chödrön

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn.

From a gesture of generosity, true letting go will evolve.

It is unconditional compassion for ourselves that leads naturally to unconditional compassion for others.

Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.

we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice. If

But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean

when we harm another, we are harming ourselves.

the best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others. These are powerful tools for dissolving the barriers that perpetuate the suffering of all beings.

To make things as easy as possible to under stand, we can summarize the four boundless qualities in the single phrase "a kind heart." Just train yourself to have a kind heart always and in all situations. —PATRUL RINPOCHE

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.