Quotes About Kindness

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

We decide that what helps and pleases a person we love is good, because it also gives us pleasure. What injures him is bad, because it causes us pain to see him unhappy. We begin to realize that the happiness of others is also our happiness.

His school-fellows thought him quite mad, and tolerated him, and indeed were very kind to him in their barbarous manner.

What comes from a willing hand is far more acceptable than what comes from a full hand. "It was a small favour for him to do"; yes, but he could do no more. "But it is a great thing which this other gave"; yes, but he hesitated, delayed, grumbled in the giving, gave disdainfully, or he made a show of it and had no mind to please the person on whom he bestowed it. Why, such a man made a present to his own pride, not to me!

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.

In affairs of the heart, Princess," César used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate.

At some point in his life, César had realised that no one ever learns from anyone else's mistakes and, consequently, there was only one dignified and proper attitude to be taken by a guardian - which, after all, was what he was - and that consisted in sitting down next to his young ward, taking her by the hand and listening, with infinite kindness, to the evolving story of her loves and griefs, whilst nature took its own wise and inevitable course.

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.

Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as 'unreal' is to mock the pain of another.

Once one realizes that beings do not truly exist and yet feels compassion for them, this is the most excellent type of compassion.

I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)

May beings everywhere who suffer Torment in their minds and bodies Have, by virtue of my merit, Joy and happiness in boundless measure.

And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. The pains and sorrows of all wandering beings— May they ripen wholly on myself. And may the virtuous company of Bodhisattvas Always bring about the happiness of beings.

When shall I be able to allay and quench The dreadful heat of suffering's blazing fires With plenteous rains of my own bliss That pour torrential from my clouds of merit?

Sin embargo, aunque trabaje por el beneficio de los demás, debo hacerlo sin orgullo ni pretensiones. Motivado solo por la satisfacción de beneficiarlos, no he de esperar ninguna otra recompensa.

Toda la felicidad de este mundo surge del deseo de que los demás sean felices, mientras que todo el sufrimiento surge de desear nuestra propia felicidad.

So take your pleasure in the excellence of others. Let them be a heartfelt joy to you.

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?

Those desiring speedily to be A refuge for themselves and others Should make the interchange of "I" and "other," And thus embrace a sacred mystery.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.