Kindness Quotes - Compassion Quotes

Quotes about Kindness, Compassion, and Generosity

Quotes about Kindness - Quotes on Kindness

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others, but probably earlier and anonymous

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
May He look upon you with kindness, and give you His peace.
May almighty God bless you - in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- Catholic Blessing

This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

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Quotes about Compassion - Quotes on Compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Dalai Lama

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings, the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference, the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort,
scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
- Hippocrates (known as the "Father of Medicine")

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and that is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912

Quotes about Generosity - Quotes on Generosity

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity, compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The generous man enriches himself by giving;
the miser hoards himself poor.
- Dutch Proverb

Lose yourself in generous service
and every day can be a most unusual day,
a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day.
- William Arthur Ward

Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world,
one becomes the leader of the world.
- Lao Tzu

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean.
But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
- Mother Theresa

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Compassion and generosity are the true measures of human worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader], when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ... took him to an inn and took care of him." ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)

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