Loving Kindness Quotes - Page 2

• It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Community, Understanding

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• If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Compassion, Speech

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• 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

  Jealousy, Kindness, Compassion

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• Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Kindness, Years

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Five: Refiner's Fire". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 285), 1985.

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• Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

  Theocritus

  Kindness, May, Littles

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• A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Wise, Kindness

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• If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Compassion, Understanding

  "Sunday Interview - Stop Running, Start Being / In 1966, Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was forced from his homeland, but in all his years of exile, he has not wavered from his pursuit of inner and global peace". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

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• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

  Barbara Johnson

  Kindness, Giving, Peanut Butter

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• Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

  Saint Blaise

  Love, God, Christian

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• Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Awareness, Interdependence

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• Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Kindness, Things In Life, Wish

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• Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Frustration, Giving

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• O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Kindness, Heart

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Grace (Journal Edition): God's Unmerited Favor”, p.40, Whitaker House

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• You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Heart, Hands

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• Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Kindness, Compassion

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• All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

  Bell Hooks

  Kindness, Foundation, Matter

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• [Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

  Pope Pius XII

  Encouragement, Kindness, Struggle

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• When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

  George MacDonald

  God, Kindness, Lying

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• In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Children, Kindness

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Kindness, Compassion, Yield

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• What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

  Shinjo Ito

  Kindness, Compassion, Important

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.9

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