Quotes about kindness
kindness impossible difficult
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others. Pema Chodron
kindness writing curiosity
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness. Pema Chodron
kindness compassion compassion-for-others
Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. Pema Chodron
kindness healing knowing
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together. Pema Chodron
kindness drama finding-yourself
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor. Pema Chodron
kindness compassion circles
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider. Pema Chodron
kindness world flood
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. Pema Chodron
kindness people doe
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people. Pema Chodron
kindness honesty world
What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself. Pema Chodron
kindness bombs pink-panther
François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind. Peter Sellers
kindness compassion practice
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion. Phyllis McGinley
kindness regret compassion
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth. Philip Pullman
kindness book people
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence. Philip Pullman
kindness war kissing
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns... Rachel Cohn
kindness men cruelty
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore
kindness mean people
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them. Queen Rania of Jordan
kindness should-have people
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty. Maggie Stiefvater
kindness generosity action
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. Madame de Stael
kindness too-late world
But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one. Haruki Murakami
kindness boys years
At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. Haruki Murakami
kindness world serious
It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. Haruki Murakami
kindness believe caring
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. Haruki Murakami
kindness stronger world
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness. Han Suyin
kindness honey unkindness
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Grantland Rice
kindness character oligarchy
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. Gilbert K. Chesterton
kindness bees kindred
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. John Lyly
kindness effort age
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. Julie Burchill
kindness breathing independence
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. Joseph Lancaster
kindness truth reality
Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness. Karen Allen
kindness compassion self
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 made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. Karen Armstrong
kindness lying hands
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return. Katharine Hepburn
kindness appreciate risk
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. Josh Radnor
kindness thinking people
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. Josh Radnor