Quotes on Love And Kindness

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If we know anything about a path at all, it's only because of the Great ones that have gone before us. Out of their love and kindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow. So, in the same way that they wish for us, we wish that all beings everywhere, including ourselves, be safe, be happy, have good health, and enough to eat. And may we all live at ease of heart with whatever comes to us in life.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

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.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.