Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Confucius

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Dalia Mogahed

Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

Dave Matthews

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

David Levithan

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

David Levithan

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

Dalai Lama

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

Dalai Lama

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Dalai Lama

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Dalai Lama

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dodie Smith

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

Dolly Parton

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are.

Debbie Macomber

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Andie MacDowell

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

Anna Sewell

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

Amy Tan

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Anthony Bourdain

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

Andre Gide

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Anne Hathaway

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Anne Frank

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank

And you can always, always, give kindness

Anne Frank

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Anne Frank

You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

Christopher Morley

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.