Top 1200 Loving Kindness Quotes & Sayings

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

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

The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

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.

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

[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

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

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

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

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

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.

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.

If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.

Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

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

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

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

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

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.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.

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

Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

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.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

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

I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!

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

One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.

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

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

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

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

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

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.