Kindness Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

“The heart is a generous muscle.”

— Sharon Salzberg

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

— Sharon Salzberg

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

— Sharon Salzberg

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and…

— Sharon Salzberg

Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.”

— Sharon Salzberg

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an…

— Sharon Salzberg

Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear…

— Sharon Salzberg

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do…

— Sharon Salzberg

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is…

— Sharon Salzberg

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I…

— Sharon Salzberg

One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind…

— Sharon Salzberg

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got…

— Sharon Salzberg

In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of…

— Sharon Salzberg

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Loving kindness is a form of love that truly is an ability, and, as research scientists have show, it can be learned.…

— Sharon Salzberg

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then…

— Sharon Salzberg

“With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love…

— Sharon Salzberg

“When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness…

— Sharon Salzberg

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that…

— Sharon Salzberg