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Kindness Quotes by Sharon Salzberg
- When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question…
- As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question…
- 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…
- Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.
- Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people…
- We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not…
- over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go…
- Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
- Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
- In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open,…
- I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness…
- It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
More Kindness Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' — Harvey Ball
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
- Kindness is always fashionable. — Amelia Barr
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? — James M. Barrie
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. — Scott Adams
- One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and… — Simone de Beauvoir