Quotes about kind
kindness giving thousand
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ... Therese of Lisieux
kindness eye practice
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us. Tertullian
kind accidents
The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents. Terry Pratchett
kind goddess grass
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.
kind moments lost
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.
kindness hands pie
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.
kindness dedication names
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.
kindness quality three
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions. Thomas A. Edison
kind application products
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,
kindness mean men
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
kindness differences people
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference. Simon Baker
kind committed all-kinds
I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one. Sheryl Lee
kindness caring thinking
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?' Sharon Salzberg
kindness stupid thinking
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.
kindness offering pages
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62
kindness roots objects
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
kindness compassion skills-training
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.
kindness long patterns
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
kindness adversity thinking
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.
kindness people meditation
I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.
kindness mean mindfulness
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
kindness spirit loving-kindness
Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.
kindness journey light
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.
kind communicators
I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. Natalie Maines
kindness heart self
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. Tara Brach
kindness heart healing
The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
kindness people half
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. Svetlana Alliluyeva
kindness buddhism animal
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us. Swami Vivekananda
kindness real grief
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans. Sophia Loren
kindness animal justice
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice. Tom Regan
kind habit
Habit has a kind of poetry. Simone de Beauvoir
kindness optimistic mean-people
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil
kindness generosity empathy
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.