Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Neeson

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Tara Brach

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

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.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Sophia Loren

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.

Rosa Parks

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

Ron Reagan

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

Roma Downey

I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

Roma Downey

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

Roma Downey

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

Roger Zelazny

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

Susan Sarandon

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Stuart Wilde

Once you are completely comfortable with charging, then - and only then - will you allow yourself to do things for free. That way if you perform a kindness for another, you will know that you are doing it because you want to, not because you have been manipulated into it or are maneuvering in the hopes of winning their affection.

Stephen Fry

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Sri Chinmoy

Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

Sri Chinmoy

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

Rosie O'Donnell

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Sylvester Stallone

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

Thomas Jefferson

When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.

Thomas Jefferson

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Robert Herjavec

I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

Tamara Mellon

I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

Tacitus

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

Rosalynn Carter

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

Rumi

Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

Rumi

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

Rumi

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

Tom Baker

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.