397 quotes found
“An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.”
“If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.”
“Demonstrating verbal kindness looks better on everyone know matter what the situation. There's a peace in the heart of the kind person who handles everything with love.”
“Kindness, Ive discovered, is everything in life.”
“Be patient with your pain. Take the time you need. There is no rush. Be patient and loving with yourself. You deserve your own kindness.”
“TO BE TREATED WITH KINDNESS AND COMPASSION, ALWAYS TREAT OTHERS IN THE SAME WAY, INCLUDING YOUR PARTNER.”
“Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.”
“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
“You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you bet...”
“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”
“Would you love money more than man?”
“When the war's over, I'll be kind.”
“The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.”
“DogfishI wantedThe past to go away, I wantedTo leave it, like another country; I wantedMy life to close, and openLike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song Where it fallsDown over the roc...”
“Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.”
“A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?”
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
“When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.”
“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God mad...”