Quotes About Kindness

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

Make friendship a fine art.

Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness

James Russell Lowell wrote: It's not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of himself of his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

It's friendship when you do good things for each other. It's showing concern and consideration.

three of the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained when we give them to others.

You can't live a perfect day unless you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Commend, Don't Criticize

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness

when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.

The smallest good dead is better than the best intention

You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

You brought back a story of kindness and love and consideration for others...truly THE MOST WONDERFUL THING OF ALL.

I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.

We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.

Our ability to touch love and kindness and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are separate and alone.

Experiment with giving away this energy--in little ways at first--directing it toward yourself and toward others with no thought of gain or return. Give more than you think you can, trusting that you are richer than you think. Celebrate this richness. Give as if you had inexhaustible wealth. This is called kingly giving.

If you believe in love, do you manifest it or just talk a lot? If you believe in compassion, in non-harming, in kindness, in wisdom, in generosity, in calmness, in solitude, in non-doing, in being even-handed and clear, do you manifest these qualities in your daily life? This is the level of intentionality which is required to keep your meditation practice vital

not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already is. Then, in that moment at least, we are already free, ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding — not always as we think it should, but definitely as it is.

If I can't do anything useful, at least I would like to do as little harm as possible.

There is really only one way to do this. It takes a ruthless and, at the same time, kind and self-compassionate commitment to seeing your own impulses to go for the familiar, to fall into habitual patterns and confining mind-sets, and a willingness to let go of them in the very moments when they arise.