Quotes About Kindness

Dosa bukanlah apa yang biasanya dikira orang, pikirnya; dosa bukanlah karena mencuri dan berbohong. Dosa adalah kalau orang menginjak-injak kehidupan orang lain secara brutal dan sama sekali tidak peduli akan luka-luka yang ditimbulkannya.

Ako nekoga mrzi mnogo ljudi, to mora da je dobar ?ovek.

You can get the measure of a man by observing the way he treats his animals

I would not have the world be cruel to you," she emphasized. "I would not have Vincent Astor be cruel to you. But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.

But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.

Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.

Kinder hearts are stronger, her mother had once

Is there something I can do? About what? she snapped. About your problem, he persisted. Does anybody's ass need kicking? I can take care of that for you. I kick good ass. Her laughter rang out, sweet and bright and gorgeous. Wow, she said. You'd do that for me? After, what has it been now, a fifteen-minute acquaintance? Twenty, maybe, tops? He considered that, and opened his mouth, and the raw, uncut, uncensored truth just plopped right out. Yeah, he said. I would.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

Freely given, freely shared, between true companions and friends." That was an old phrase, but Gran had made sure I knew all the old phrases. JoAnn looked—and according to the land, felt—startled. For a long moment, she didn't move, then she smiled again—a little less firmly—and took the bag from me. "The feast increases, with the goodwill of all.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

The foundation of metta practice is to know how to be our own friend. According to the Buddha, "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give.

The Dalai Lama has said: "My religion is kindness." If we all adopted such a stance and embodied it in thought and action, inner and outer peace would be immediate, for in reality they are never not present, only obscured, waiting to be discovered. This is the work and the power of lovingkindness, the embrace that allows no separation between self, others, and events—the affirmation and honoring of a core goodness in others and in oneself.

The Buddha actually described at some length what he meant by being a good friend in the world. He talked about a good friend as someone who is constant in our times of happiness and also in our times of adversity or unhappiness. A friend will not forsake us when we are in trouble nor rejoice in our misfortune. The Buddha described a true friend as being a helper, someone who will protect us when we are unable to take care of ourselves, who will be a refuge to us when we are afraid.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.