Quotes About Kindness

When we say something that nourishes us and uplifts the people around us, we are feeding love and compassion. When we speak and act in a way that causes tension and anger, we are nourishing violence and suffering.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself — if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself — it is very difficult to take care of another person.

Committed to Improving the State of Every Heart.

Understanding is love's other name.

The suffering and the quarreling in a family don't begin with unkindness, they begin with one person's pain and stress.

If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.

Rok Zorko, vice president of product development for the very successful app-development company, Outfit7, said, "It is an eye-opener to realize that you are not to treat people as objects but to treat them as people. Once you have this knowledge, you can never unthink it.

Love is all you need - The Beatles - And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make - The Beatles -

All you need is love...love is all you need.

All you need is love!!

You are all vinegar, my dear Helen. I believe in the judicious application of honey.

You are too kind and generous," said Justine. Irene smiled. "Or really, really mad at those bastards. When I shoot a man, I expect him to die!

the practice of medicine in a large and kindly way had led him to the conclusion that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophies and in our small neighborhood relationships.

Just one drop of compassion is enough to bring back spring on Earth.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Compassion is a verb.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, ...awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering.