All Quotes By Tag: Kindness

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”

“How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.”

“If you hit bottom, there’s a whole lot of people here to help you up”

“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness.”

“KindnessBefore you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the passengers eating maize and chickenwill stare out the window forever.Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,you must travel where the Indian in a white poncholies dead by the side of the road.You must see how this could be you,how he too was someonewho journeyed through the night with plansand the simple breath that kept him alive.Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.You must wake up with sorrow.You must speak to it till your voicecatches the thread of all sorrowsand you see the size of the cloth.Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,only kindness that ties your shoesand sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayIt is I you have been looking for,and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.Colombia”

“Don’t wish…DO! Don’t try…BE! Don’t think…KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?”

“Sometimes it’s easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”

“Being bad is not good but too sad, and being good is not at all bad. Is this simple equation,And that’s the elation: More good, more the world is glad!”

“Good begets good. Calm begets calm. It isn´t the child who is bad; it is the action that is bad.”

“Define yourself—not by how much you are loved, but by how much you love others.”

“Kindness is a most attractive quality.Like a blazing fire on a cold winter’s night,We are drawn to its warmth and light.”

“There is no knowledge like kindness.”