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Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
Sep 10, 2025
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.
I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.
I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.
True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.
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.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.