Quotes About Kindness

Compassion is the wish-fulfilling gem whose light of healing spreads in all directions.

As I breathe in, I am taking on the suffering of my friend or others, and as I breathe out, I am giving him or them happiness and peace.

As Stephen Levine says: "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion.

Loving as He loves, Helping as He helps, Giving as He gives, Serving as He serves, Rescuing as He rescues, Being with Him twenty-four hours, Touching Him in his distressing disguise.

May I take on the suffering of everyone who has this terrible illness. May they be free from this affliction and from all their suffering.

And the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures. And until they pass away from pain May I also be the source of life For all the realms of varied beings That reach unto the ends of space.8

To discover that the most important thing is human relationships and love and not materialistic things.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

He, however, lost nothing by his kindness

A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

God loves old dogs.

It is not asking much one person out of all the world.

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.

We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.

Soft hearts bled, and in their pain they caused grief and havoc.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.

To revive sorrow is cruel.

We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.

As we lose ourselves in service to others, we find greater spirituality and happiness.