Quotes About Kindness

It is a great happiness to be able to give.

The simple act of being completely present to another person is truly an act of love

Oh, Marty"—as in Martin Luther King, Jr.—"used to say to me, 'You have to love everybody.' And I would say, 'No, I don't. I'm only going to love the people that deserve to be loved.' And Marty would laugh and say, 'No, no, no. You have to love everybody.

Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.

May the actions that I take toward the good, toward understanding myself, toward being more peaceful be of benefit to all beings everywhere. And

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how.

But to take delight in our generosity helps us immeasurably in our spiritual practice.

with every action we take, we send love or suffering into the web that connects us.

Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one's partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.

Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.

If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

It's all too easy to slot someone into the category of "needing help" and not to recognize the tremendous help they are offering to others.

With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy

Real love allows for failure and suffering.

We also try not to harm others verbally, seeing that our speech has tremendous power. Words do not just leave our mouths and disappear; they have great effects in this world.

We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.