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I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.
Sep 10, 2025
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
If we know anything about a path at all, it's only because of the Great ones that have gone before us. Out of their love and kindness, they have left some footprints for us to follow. So, in the same way that they wish for us, we wish that all beings everywhere, including ourselves, be safe, be happy, have good health, and enough to eat. And may we all live at ease of heart with whatever comes to us in life.
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
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.
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
The art of being kind is all the world needs.
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.
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.
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
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.
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.
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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.
Do your little bit of good where you are.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.