Kindness Quotes

A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.

~ Amit Ray

A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.

~ Amit Ray

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

~ Amit Ray

Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.

~ Amit Ray

If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morning. 'I think if you are an intensely religious believer, as soon as you wake up, you thank God for another day. And you try to do God’s will. For a nontheist like myself, but who is a Buddhist, as soon as I wake up, I remember Buddha’s teaching: the importance of kindness and compassion, wishing something good for others, or at least to reduce their suffering. Then I remember that everything is interrelated, the teaching of interdependence. So then I set my intention for the day: that this day should be meaningful. Meaningful means, if possible, serve and help others. If not possible, then at least not to harm others. That’s a meaningful day.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

How do we change the world? By sending out a ripple of love that will affect one person at a time.

~ Nanette Mathews

Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.

~ Nanette Mathews

Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When the wind blows in your face,when you feel you are losing your head,when the going gets tough,and when all else fails,look inside you,you are not alone.

~ Malak El Halabi

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!

~ Kemi Sogunle

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

~ Charles Dickens

No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can.

~ Eileen Anglin

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

No one's life will be harder because I exist.

~ Chris Matakas

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded—a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

~ Amit Ray

Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

~ John Bruna

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

~ Amit Ray

Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth.

~ Nikki Rowe

God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you know someone close to you who are quiet or smaller or missing, seek them out, they may need to be found again. It is most beautiful to turn off our ego and feel true empathy for others. Compassion, sympathy, kindness, empathy, selflessness, etc. are the biggest signs of a person with a good soul and a big heart!

~ Angie Karan

Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness.

~ Debasish Mridha

I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.

~ Debasish Mridha

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Food-sharing is an innate way that we show our love for people we care about. Including others in times of celebration is an act of kindness.

~ Dr. Theresa Nicassio

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

~ Shannon L. Alder