Quotes About Kindness

Unconditional acceptance is the first step in opening the door to the miracle of forgiveness.

We have to find ways to nourish and express our compassion. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Practice looking at all beings with the eyes of compassion: this is the meditation called "the meditation on compassion.

If you are happy, all of us will profit from it. Society will profit from it. All living beings will profit from it.

Your mindful steps are not for you alone; they are for your partner and friends too, because the moment you stop suffering, others benefit.

Perhaps, in their lives, they had a lot of suffering and didn't have many opportunities for joy. In you, they have this opportunity.

You are more capable of helping yourself if you treat yourself with compassion and a loving heart.

which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. Loving-kindness is not only the desire to make someone happy, to bring joy to a beloved person; it is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer.

maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence.

The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so.

There are four elements that make up true love, the four immeasurable minds. They are maitri (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (joy), and upeksha (equanimity, nondiscrimination).

The third element of true love is joy, mudita.

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

Compassionate listening is a very deep practice. You listen not to judge or to blame. You listen just because you want the other person to suffer less.

According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an "internal formation." When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an "internal formation.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

You could treat people right without fearing or trying to please God. You could do it simply because it was human to do it, because love was a more ennobling tendency than hate, and if you were lucky, maybe you could live with yourself and sleep nights.

O how unconcernedly do many look on the miseries of others, how far are they from taking a lesson to themselves therefrom!

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

treat them with humanity, not because we sought their gratitude or wanted to show how generous in spirit we were, but simply because our experience should have taught us to empathize with human beings in need, regardless of who they were.

To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.