Quotes About Kindness

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Sabe, em relação a esses idiotas, eu tenho uma ideia a respeito. E se as pessoas que estão te deixando louco não estiverem tentando te deixar louco? E se essas pessoas não forem idiotas, mas razoavelmente inteligentes, e só estão fazendo o melhor que podem num determinado dia?

Because at the end of the day, love wins.

Jack Kornfield said: "A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance." In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

How easy it is, I thought, to break someone's heart, even when you take great care not to.

There is something likable in everyone. And to my great surprise, I found that she was right. It's impossible to get to know people deeply and not to come to like them.

Wendell once pointed out that we talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but that our words aren't always kind or true or helpful—or even respectful. Most of what we say to ourselves we'd never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children. In therapy, we learn to pay close attention to those voices in our heads so that we can learn a better way to communicate with ourselves.

Wendell once pointed out that we talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but that our words aren't always kind or true or helpful

Before you speak, ask yourself, What is this going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now. There is a difference, I point out to them, between self- blame and self-responsibility, which is a corollary to something Jack Kornfield said: 'A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

leaving the world a better place than she found it.

You do good mothering.

the only thing left to do is love