Quotes about kindness and compassion

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Kindness and compassion'.

• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. (Ray Bradbury)
• The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
• Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? (Sai Baba)
• Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation. (Peter Shepherd)
• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Allow truth, honesty and compassion to become your faithful travel guides on life's uncertain journey to fame and fortune. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
• Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment. (Alan Cohen)
• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Angels touch us through writing, meditation, the kindness of strangers, or words of wisdom spoken by a friend. (Susan Santucci)
• 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)
• The whole worth of a kind deed is in the love that inspires it. (The Talmud)
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Dalai Lama)
• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. (Nathaniel Branden)
• When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion. (Marshall B. Rosenberg)
• Today, do something that's entirely selfless and make it memorable for someone else. (Robert Finkelstein)
• Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. (Richard Carlson)
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
• Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence? (Sai Baba)
• The more you practice the three trainings of ethics, meditation, and wisdom, the more difficult it will become for you to act in a way that is contrary to an ethical, compassionate attitude. Ethics arise naturally out of contemplating the three trainings. (Martine Batchelor)
• The memory of a good deed lives. (Aesop) [The Old Woman and the Wine Jar - Aesop's Fables]
• Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own. (Adam Lindsay Gordon)
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Aesop) [The Lion and the Mouse - Aesop's Fables]
• To create more positive results in your life, replace 'if only' with 'next time'. (Unknown)
• My religion is simple, my religion is kindness. (Dalai Lama)
• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama)
• You never regret being kind. (Nicole Shepherd)
• But how can you say, 'It was only talk, so no harm was done?' Were this true, then your prayers, and words of kindness, would be a waste of breath. (Nachman of Bratslay)
• If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive. (Raymond Chandler) [from the novel Dick Tracy]
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. (Albert Schweitzer)
• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these. (George Washington Carver)
• Your conscience teaches your mind how to 'think' your heart how to 'feel' your soul how to 'obey' and most importantly your body how to 'perform' extraordinary 'acts' of charity and human kindness toward your fellow man. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]

 

 

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Jayne Herbert - Penzance - Cornwall