With Kindness Quotes

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.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you become a spiritual person.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.

Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

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

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.