Top 1200 Love And Kindness Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

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

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I've known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever do that was worth love from you and the kindness you've shown? Lord, help me, Jesus, I've wasted it so. Help me, Jesus. I know what I am. Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand.

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

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

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

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!

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.

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.

I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.

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