Quotes about kind
kindness long patterns
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy. Sharon Salzberg
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. Sharon Salzberg
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. Sharon Salzberg
kindness mean mindfulness
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness. Sharon Salzberg
kindness spirit loving-kindness
Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others. Sharon Salzberg
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. Sharon Salzberg
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. Tara Brach
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. Simone Weil
kindness luxury honor
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own. Simon Sinek
kind-thoughts yield reason
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts. Thomas Mann
kindness real thinking
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within. Thomas Merton
kind speak truth-is
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Thomas Carlyle
kindness laughter heart
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle
kindness laughter true-joy
Without kindness there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle
kindness heart thinking
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be. Tony Kushner
kind preppy lifestyle
I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool. Tommy Hilfiger
kind forget
The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around. Stephen King
kind burden ends
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry Sigmund Freud
kindness people house
It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed. Shirley Jackson
kind tension destructive
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. Shirley Manson
kind big-government
It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.
kind politically-correct statements
I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements. Shahrukh Khan
kindness cities america
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. Robert A. Heinlein
kindness people stupidity
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. Tilda Swinton
kindness men people
Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself. Thomas Szasz