Kindness Buddhism Quotes

#1. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.

Herman Melville

#2. Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

Maggie Nelson

#3. It had just been made excruciatingly clear to him that the human male brain and the human male cock couldn't both sustain sufficient amounts of blood to function at the same time. It was one or the other, and the human male apparently didn't get to choose which one.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#5. Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

Theo Paphitis

#6. Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

Susan Sontag

#7. The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

Michael Gove

#8. Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships.

Charlotte Kasl

#9. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Support your right to arm bears.

Cleveland Amory

#12. I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

#13. To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

Thich Thien-An

#14. Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

Barbara Corcoran

#16. How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

Kentetsu Takamori

#17. Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. In certain situations it was best not to know or at least best not to leave any way of proving that you knew what you knew.

Jonas Jonasson

#19. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#20. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns
of fear & jealousy.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)

Ananda Maitreya

#22. I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

Paul Bloom

#23. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Sharon Salzberg

#24. In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

Jason Statham