Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

Mother Teresa

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Joanna Garcia

Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Jim Rohn

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

George MacDonald

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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.

Eknath Easwaran

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Lisa Kleypas

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

Lionel Barrymore

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Leo Tolstoy

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..

Leo Buscaglia

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Leo Buscaglia

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Lewis B. Smedes

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Joseph Stowell

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Joseph Stowell

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Mother Teresa

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

Mother Teresa

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Mother Teresa

Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

Pearl S. Buck

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Peace Pilgrim

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

Peter Lerangis

We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

Pema Chodron

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Pema Chodron

Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.