Kindness Quotes - Page 32

• Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Be Kind, Kind, Be Kind To Yourself

  Alexandra Stoddard (1990). “Daring to be Yourself”, Doubleday Books

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• Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.

  Julie Hebert

  Be Kind, Faces, Happy Face

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• Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Generosity, Taoism

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• A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.

  Zicheng Hong

  Heart, Heaven, Taoism

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• Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says "You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.

  John Assaraf

  Children, Hero, Moving

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

  Andrew Solomon

  Compassion, People, Evil

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Integrity, Responsibility

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.

  Danielle Cormack

  Exercise

  "Danielle Cormack: What Love, Laughter and Legos Have to Do with Everything". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Expression, Guy, Perception

  "Ask Sharon Gannon About Yoga & Veganism | Communication". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

  George Saunders

  Fiction, God Life, Pursue

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place.

  Alex Ebert

  Sadness, Mean, Thinking

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.

  Sharon Gannon

  Choices, Kinder, Veganism

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

  Byron Katie

  Inspired, Smallest, Humans

  "Spiritual Leader Byron Katie Tells ORIGIN Magazine Why We Should Embrace The Quiet". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2014.

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• Love is support, kindness, and warmth. That's all I have so far; I'm still figuring it out.

  Xosha Roquemore

  Love Is, Support, Figuring It

  "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

  Nathan East

  Humility, Love Is, Compassion

  "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

  Ken Wahl

  Grateful, Differences, America

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• Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.

  Stacy Keibler

  Differences, Intention, Shows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

  Epictetus

  Hurt, People, Feelings

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• You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

  Pico Iyer

  Exercise, Practice, House

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

  Pico Iyer

  World, Today, Messages

  Source: layoga.com

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• I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

  Roma Downey

  Be Kind, Inspired, Touch Me

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• I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.

  Alison Eastwood

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Sweet

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• That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

  Bellamy Young

  Beautiful, Fall, Thoughtful

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

  Bellamy Young

  Generosity, Helping, Thoughtfulness

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Old Habits, Numbers

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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