Quotes About Kindness

Understanding is the very foundation of love. When you understand someone, you cannot help but love him or her.

You need to have the gift of non-fear within you in order to be able to offer it to others.

Mu?n thÆ°Æ¡ng yêu ph?i hi?u bi?t.

The idea is that we try our best to protect life, knowing that we cannot be perfect. If we're doing our best, that's good enough.

This is the essence of love—to be there for the one you love when she is suffering.

Má»™t khi Ä'ã có hi?u bi?t, ta có th? thÆ°Æ¡ng yêu và tha th?. Cuá»™c ??i s? bá»›t kh? r?t nhi?u khi ta có hi?u bi?t. N?u không hi?u bi?t, ta không th? thÆ°Æ¡ng yêu và tha th?.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That is the message he is sending. If you are able to see that, offer him what he needs — relief. Happiness and safety are not an individual matter. His happiness and safety are crucial for your happiness and safety. Wholeheartedly wish him happiness and safety, and you will be happy and safe also.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand." -- Thích Nh?t H?nh, How to Love

The service of peace. The service of any person in need. The word service is so immense. Let's return first to a more modest scale: our families, our classmates, our friends, our own community. We must live for them—for if we cannot live for them, whom else do we think we are living for?

Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. So that the other can stop being a bomb, a source of pain for ourselves and others, you really have to help him to defuse the bomb. To be able to provide help, we have to have a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in ourselves.

If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.

Some people suffer deeply but are completely ignored by others. They are alone and isolated, so cut off from the rest of the world that their suffering becomes overwhelming. You must go to them and open the door to their heart so they can see the love that is there.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Living for responsibility and love can be a great source of happiness....

If we know how to create a moment of happiness, we get to enjoy that happiness ourselves, and we can also double it by sharing it with another person. That is the art of happiness, tasting and delighting in the little happinesses of daily life.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

Th?u hi?u ná»—i Ä'au c?a ng??i khác là món quà to lá»›n nh?t mà b?n có th? trao t?ng h?. Th?u hi?u là tên g?i khác c?a yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng. N?u b?n không th? th?u hi?u, thì b?n ch?ng th? yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng

It does not take more than one thoughtless phrase to hurt someone.

For love to be true love, it must contain compassion, joy, and equanimity. For compassion to be true compassion, it has to have love, joy, and equanimity in it. True joy has to contain love, compassion, and equanimity. And true equanimity has to have love, compassion, and joy in it.

True love is made of loving kindness (maitri), compassion (karuna), joy (mudita), and equanimity (upeksha). True love brings joy and peace, and relieves suffering.

Practice love on yourself. When you succeed, loving another person becomes very natural. Your love will be like a lamp that shines; it will make many, many people happy.

When you understand the pain of those who cause you suffering and choose to let it go, forgiveness will come naturally, because compassion will be present. When it is necessary, you can be firm and strong, but never lose your kindness or your beauty.

Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions, discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing, you are still capable of sitting quietly and listening, without interrupting, without reacting. Because you know that if you can listen like that, the other person will feel enormous relief. You remember that you are listening with only one purpose in mind: to give the other person a chance to express themselves

Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief.