Quotes on Kindness

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.