Loving Kindness Quotes - Page 3

• Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Should, Whole Life

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• If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Kindness, Teaching

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• Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Hatred, Joy

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• I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

  Lewis Carroll

  Prayer, Kindness, Father

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.157, Springer

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• Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Impossible, Difficult

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Pain, Kindness, Reading

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude-the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them. If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Attitude, Kindness

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• Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Real, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.58, Parallax Press

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• Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

  Martha Stout

  Kindness, Winning, Brain

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• You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

  Michael Josephson

  Kindness, Water, Containers

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• Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.

  Edgar Cayce

  Karma, Attitude, Kindness

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• Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Teacher, Kindness, Fascination

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• Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Morality, Maxims

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• Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. This, they say, is the holy state here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Buddhist, Kindness

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• This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Peace, Kindness, Men

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• Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Kindness, Goodness

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Offering, Pages

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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

  Kindness, Loving Life, Air

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• Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Destiny, Order

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Kindness, Law

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 20,

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

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• Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for material prosperity, or to recover from illness. But this way of practicing faith only leads to a dead end. Buddha images should serve as inspirations to cultivate the infinite loving kindness latent in the buddha within us.

  Shinjo Ito

  Kindness, Inspiration, People

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.134

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• A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Kindness, Giving

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