Kindness Quotes - Page 60

Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Live, let live, and help live

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.