Quotes on Kindness

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.