Quotes About Kindness

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.