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Kind Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if…
- If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
- Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to…
- Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with…
- The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of…
- Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is…
- Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that…
- If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has…
- When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we…
- Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can…
- If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This…
- Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of…
- When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
- Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind…
- Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being…
- Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am…
- Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a…
- I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
- The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking…
- We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the…
- You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions.…
- When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a…
More Kind Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd