Kindness Quotes - Page 33

• Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Mindfulness, Needs

  "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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• Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!

  Sadie Calvano

  Mom, Practice, Watches

  "Finding Play Through Work, with Sadie Calvano, star of CBS's Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Believe, Yoga, Compassion

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• Be kinder. Kindness is underrated!

  Louise Roe

  Underrated, Kinder

  "Host of MTV’s Plain Jane, Louise Roe: Family, Blogging and the Little Things". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• "Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.

  George Saunders

  Mean, Light, Editing

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.

  George Saunders

  Mean, Understanding, Fearless

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

  George Saunders

  Simple, Thinking, Deep Water

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.

  George Saunders

  Blessing, Thinking, Dull

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Essence, Would Be

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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

  Sarah MacLean

  Compassion, Practice, Meditation

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• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

  Patanjali

  Healing, Heart, Atmosphere

  Patanjali (2015). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.

  Karl Pearson

  Integrity, Generosity, World

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• A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Men, Giving

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• Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.

  Courtney Stodden

  Memories, May, Lasts

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

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Glad, Deserve

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• I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

  Wayne White

  Hollywood, Stuff, My Family

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pride, People, Dignity

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

  Dar Williams

  Honesty, Night, Years

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.

  Helen Fielding

  Mistake, Laughing, Perfection

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

  Dar Williams

  Thinking, Hands, Differences

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

  Peter Buffett

  Buddhism, Greed, And Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, World, Body

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

  Tara Brach

  Powerful, Gestures, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.

  Tara Brach

  Expecting Something In Return, Each Day, Favors

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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