Top 85 Living Kindness Quotes
#1. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#2. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#3. I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#4. Advice to a Separated Couple - My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.
Ellen G. White
#5. He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness. He
William Peter Blatty
#6. In life we meet people and they come and go. But, only God will remain the same. Despite what others think, God's love is eternal. No matter who abandons you, God will never leave or forsake you.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#8. Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.
Mark Lawrence
#10. Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.
Richard Carlson
#11. I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
Vasily Grossman
#12. People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#13. Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#14. Through mindfully practising love and compassion we are able to heal our hearts and minds from our hurt and suffering, thus bringing harmony into this world. The more we are open to love, the easier it is to share kindness with all living creatures.
Christopher Dines
#15. That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.
Armistead Maupin
#17. Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#18. With profound love, kindness, and harmony trees are endlessly extending their blessings. That is why we are still living.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.
Jason F. Wright
#20. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen Simonson
#21. Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.
Abhijit Naskar
#22. The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith Wharton
#23. Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, & dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings.
Radhanath Swami
#25. ...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
Travis Culliton
#27. Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.
Ivan Illich
#28. Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence.
Munia Khan
#29. If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#30. We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.
Amit Ray
#31. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
Marilynne Robinson
#32. The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Eknath Easwaran
#33. Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#34. You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#35. Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
Mikao Usui
#36. Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.
Cesar Chavez
#37. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#38. As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. And he, who in this oneness of love loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth, he lives in me...
Vanamali
#39. I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go - whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.
Roy Bennett
#41. Ugh! Why couldn't anyone ever trust her? She wasn't a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.' (Sunshine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
Mollie Marti
#43. Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.
Brian Blessed
#44. A belief in a policy of kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.
Dalai Lama XIV
#46. Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
Cesar Chavez
#47. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
Tilda Swinton
#48. People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#50. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.
Ka Chinery
#51. Since the church life is the proper life, it brings in God's blessing. Peace, joy, love, sympathy, kindness, normal living - all are signs of such a blessing of life which comes by the experience of Christ through the cross.
Witness Lee
#52. Everyone you meet is hurt, broken and fighting a hard battle. Please don't be an ass.
Sarvesh Jain
#53. ... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
Charles Dickens
#54. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
Steve Goodier
#55. Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
C. JoyBell C.
#56. Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#57. Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#58. The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is the answer
Karen Hackel
#59. When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
Ben Carson
#61. The more happiness and love that can be reborn the better, because it will make this world more beautiful and kind. Therefore you and I should be living our weeks, days and hours in order to be reborn constantly as happiness, love and kindness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#62. The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
Plutarch
#63. Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.
Mary Baker Eddy
#65. Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#66. 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
#67. Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.
Roy T. Bennett
#68. Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
Mother Teresa
#69. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
Mahavira
#70. Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
Dawn Garcia
#72. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
#73. If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#74. Humility makes us more friendly
Happiness makes us more lively.
Love makes us more caring
Dream makes us more daring.
Trust makes us more forgiving
Kindness makes us more loving.
Hope gives us the joy of dreaming
Peace gives us the joy of living.
Debasish Mridha
#75. After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
Joseph William Martin Jr.
#76. For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#77. With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.
Auliq Ice
#78. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
Jack Kerouac
#80. Cherish kindness, even when you are living in wilderness.
Debasish Mridha
#81. When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.
Earl Nightingale
#82. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#83. Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.
D.A. McBride
#84. There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
T.C. Boyle
#85. But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
Nhat Hanh
