Quotes About Kindness

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

He, on the other hand, found great beauty behind her face, great kindness and understanding.

Once he saw her shaking a walnut tree, he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnuts in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumb-tacked to his door.

If paying attention is love, I am love. If knowing is love, I am love. If helping you not to fall into error and to be good is love, I am love.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over. From Fahrenheit 451_RAY Bradbury

think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. All warmth derives from this love, all kindness and all humor.

If you use slang use the refined kind and use it like a gentleman, that it will not hurt or give offense to any one. Cardinal Newman defined a gentleman as he who never inflicts pain. Be a gentleman in your slang—never inflict pain.

The second kind of unwholesome speech is the use of harsh, angry, or aggressive language.

If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish.

At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we take the time to stop and feel what is really going on—even for just a few moments before rushing on with our lives.

WE MOVE FROM THE FIRST OF THE TEACHINGS OF ALL THE Buddhas, doing no harm, to the second: acting for the good. This principle of One Dharma, common to all traditions, highlights the positive actions we undertake both for our own welfare and for the benefit and well-being of others.

SIX SKILLFUL ACTIONS Generosity heads almost every list of actions for the good. For many people it is the easiest one to appreciate and develop because it brings such immediate delight to our lives. Generosity enacts the quality of nongreed; it is a willingness to give, to share, to let go. It may be the giving of time, energy, resources, love, and even, in rare cases, one's own life for the benefit and welfare of others.

If we're more accepting, more peaceful, less judgmental, less selfish, then the whole world is that much more loving and peaceful, that much less judgmental and selfish. Our

Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember).

Mindenki nagyon barátságosan viselkedett vele szemben, és senki sem volt hozzá igazán kedves; mindenki szóba állt vele, és mindenki csak semmiségeket mondott neki.

You must give to receive.

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. The

Always make it a special point to rejoice in the wealth of another person.

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

Wish for the other what you wish for yourself. This is the key to harmonious human relations.

Do not ever try and deprive another of any joy. If you do, you deprive yourself. When the ship comes in for your friend, it comes in for you also.

All you owe any person in the world is love, and love is wishing for everyone what you wish for yourself—health, happiness, and all the blessings of life.

Without an accepting and kind attitude toward ourselves, it's difficult to be caring and compassionate for others.