Kindness Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Women, Flower

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sympathy, Inspiration, Humble

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• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Heart, People, Use

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• Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Mean, Simple, Generosity

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.34, Insight Meditation Center

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• Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Absent

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• Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Men

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Mysterious Things, People

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• Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sorrow, Doe, Fancy

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• Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

  Thomas Fuller

  Home, Fundraising, Charity

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• In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

  John MacAulay

  Running, Long, Redemption

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• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Money, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.178

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• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

  Saul Bellow

  Men, Vacuums, Goodness

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Past, Harsh, Interpretation

  "The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time".

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Brain, Temples

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• What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Inspiration, Army, Needs

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• Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

  Dawna Markova

  Believe, Doe, Matter

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• 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

  Honesty, World, Gestures

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• What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

  Richard Gere

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Compassion

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. 1999.

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• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Ignorance, Space, Brotherhood

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

  Confucius

  Gratitude, Express Yourself

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• To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Ignorant, Would Be, Literature

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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