Quotes About Kindness

O'Connor had a knack for bringing a personal - and winning - touch to a situation when people least expected it.

Sometimes we complicate things too much. There is great wisdom in keeping things simple. When the Dalai Lama was asked to explain his religion and philosophy of life, he answered very simply that his religion is kindness. Can you envision a world in which kindness was everyone's primary motivation? We would be living in heaven on earth.

Today, be aware of the judgments you make. Whenever you catch yourself judging someone, imagine that you are breathing in their pain in the form of black smoke. Breathe your happiness back to them.

There is a wonderful movement afoot called "random acts of kindness." What a refreshing change from random acts of violence that so trouble our world.

During the day, if you are invited to share your spiritual practice with anyone, remember that humility, non-judgment and respect for other's points of view are the best measure of spiritual attainment.

May there be peace on earth and goodwill towards all.

Seed Thought "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is an unqualified statement. It doesn't say love your good neighbors and your best friends. To love our neighbor is to extend the wish for enlightenment to everyone, including those we might hold in judgment or think of as our enemies.

If judgmental thoughts about others occur during the day, take a minute to send lovingkindness blessings first to yourself, and then to them.

As you watch television, read the newspaper or magazines, or encounter suffering in any form, send lovingkindness blessings. The world doesn't need any more anger or indignation, but it could certainly use more love.

The old adage "Charity begins at home" means that we need to have a loving, growing image of ourselves.

We can only love others to the degree that we have opened our hearts to ourselves. It is not selfish to bless ourselves first, because if our heart remains closed we have nothing to give.

When you catch yourself thinking uncharitable thoughts, mentally resolve to stop and send out more kind, encouraging thoughts.

The message to the stranger is clear: come right in and disturb our perfect lives. You are the Christ for us today.

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment.

Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.

A world without empathy is a world that is dead to others—and if we are dead to others, we are dead to ourselves. The sharing of another's pain can take us past the narrow canyon of selfish disregard, and even cruelty, and into the larger, more expansive landscape of wisdom and compassion.

In the end, I learned that the practice of Not-Knowing is the very ground of altruism, because it opens us up to a much wider horizon than our preconceptions could ever afford us and can let in connection and tenderness.

the way out of the storm and mud of suffering, the way back to freedom on the high edge of strength and courage, is through the power of compassion.

Birdfoot's Grampa The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. ******** The rain was falling a mist about his white hair and I kept saying you can't save them all accept it, get back in we've got places to go. But the leathery hands full of wet brown life knee deep in the summer roadside grass he just smiled and said they have places to go too.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

Look, I could go on and on and on telling you why I hate myself, but it's so self-centered…and I'm not like that. I'm a giver. So I'd rather branch out and start giving it to everyone else.

She wasn't nice. She was rarely polite. And no one who knew her well would have called her a generous woman.

Kindness must be the highest virtue--don't let me forget that ever. Were I to strive for one thing only 'twould be to be kind to others, as you are, Catherine.