Quotes About Kindness

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Right before anger arises, there is often a sense of hurt or fear or loss. When you can feel that, you can notice how little compassion or kindness you have for yourself and others. When we feel fear or when we feel pain or when we feel hurt, our response is often anger, but what is most healing is to acknowledge the anger and to notice what causes it, and to hold that in our attention.

Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. The Buddha

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Mother Teresa put it like this: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

To live with great wisdom and compassion is possible for anyone who genuinely undertakes a training of their heart and mind. What better thing to do with our life?

The four radiant abodes are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and peace.These abodes are treasured because they are exquisitely simple, the universal expression of an open heart. When our peaceful heart meets other beings it fills with love. When love meets happiness, it becomes joy.

What was love, anyway? he mused. She said it was caring, caring more about someone else than about yourself.

Nothing done in love that harms no one can be perverse.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself—that is the heart of the Christian message. Everything else is commentary.

Real love would not take more than it gave. It would not be selfish.

I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied.

In work and in life, no matter how smart, talented, and beautiful you are, you also have to be a good person.

To make a good impression, all you have to do is talk to people, look them in the eye, and show them respect and love.

Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself. And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!

Sensuality begins sometimes with kindness, but it ends always in the most reckless and intolerable cruelty.