Top 1200 Kindness And Compassion Quotes & Sayings

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

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

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, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

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

Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

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

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

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

Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy moves into compassion. And this movement is very different. Desire has a motivation in it, a goal; compassion is nonmotivated, there is no goal to it, it is simply overflowing energy.

Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

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 will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

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.

We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

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

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.