Kindness Quotes - Page 24

• No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

  Hani

  Drama, Saving, Matter

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• To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

  Omar Khayyam

  Heart, Deeds, Bosom Friends

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Mind, Energy

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• I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.

  Wayne Dyer

  Taken, Thinking, Understanding

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

  Bell Hooks

  Foundation, Matter, Built

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Hopeful, Innovation

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.

  Wayne Dyer

  Years, Always Trying, Twenties

  Interview with Miro Lipinski, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2017.

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• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Pride, Self, Idols

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• I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

  Gary Busey

  Football, Drama, House

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• And freedom comes with grace, kindness, understanding, and love. Don't take anything personal, folks. Whatever is said about you or rumored or you heard something - you haven't done anything wrong and it's not your fault. That is your own self-invisible anchor that will stop your boat of life from going forward.

  Gary Busey

  Self, Anchors, Grace

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Heart, Emotional

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so deeply moving. It is in our nature to want to help, to serve, to be part of something larger than ourselves. We have a desire to connect with others. We want to make a difference in the world. I would call this a spiritual longing to be whole, interrelated, interconnected.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Memories, Past

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

  Francis Bacon

  Kids, Caring, Mind

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• We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

  George H. W. Bush

  People, Volunteer, Giving

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• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Thousand, Humans

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• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Judging, Ignorant

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

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• Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

  Richard Carlson

  Integrity, Priorities, Live Your Life

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Revenge, Moving, Thinking

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• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  John Locke

  Christian, Men, People

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• Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Years, Trials

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Five: Refiner's Fire". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 285), 1985.

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• Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Children, Father

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

  George A. Smith

  Loving Life, Air, Common

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• I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

  Steven Wright

  Food, Moving, Night

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• The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

  William Law

  Charity, Merit, Persons

  William Law (1848). “A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young”, p.95

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