Loving Kindness Quotes

• When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Kindness

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• Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Fear, Anger

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• Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wise, Kindness, Mind

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• Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen (1992). “The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra”, Parallax Pr

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• Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Crazy, Jealous

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Caring, Garden

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• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Kindness, Women

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Wise, Powerful, Kindness

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Feelings, Nurture

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• Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Compassion, Suffering

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Kindness, Healing, Light

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• Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Friendship, Kindness, Heart

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• But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Compassion, People

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Respect, Kindness, Character

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• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Kindness, Mind

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• To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Flower, Metta, Lovingkindness

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Kindness, Drinking, Healing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Enemy

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• I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

  Ron Reagan

  Buddhist, Kindness, Teaching

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