Quotes About Kindness

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Be kinder than necessary.

Never resist a generous impulse.

Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

If you help someone, you may create a customer for life.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

Beauty lives with kindness.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.