Natural Kindness Quotes

#1. (Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone)
You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

Thomas Merton

#2. For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r

William Butler Yeats

#3. We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Helen Fisher

#4. That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural.

Louise Penny

#5. By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

Dalai Lama

#6. But please refrain from torturing me with your asinine male chauvinistic ramblings first. Having tits doesn't negate having a fucking brain, you idiot.

Jessica Gadziala

#7. The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Thieves slept the sleep of the just, their fingers still in someone else's till.

Jeff VanderMeer

#9. Hope is born from ashes and love yeilds to no other power. Return to your heart." A

Devon Monk

#10. I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God ... or the Devil.

Peter Ustinov

#11. We defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Sometimes it hurts to look at you, I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.

Jenny Han

#13. Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.

Balroop Singh

#14. Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Don't run away from me, Logan. I'm not sure why you're scared every time I try and show you some kindness, but don't reject me. It's not easy for me either. I'm not a natural. I've forgotten how it feels to put down the barriers and let someone in.

Caroline Cairn

#16. When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#17. Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved so little.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

Geneen Roth

#21. One has to decide to know the nature of the Soul. Will one not have to know that? Nothing is attained by just saying, 'I am the Soul, I am the Soul.' The Soul has to come in to one's experience, until then the worldly problems will not go away, will they?

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully. This is critical to abstract art. Small differences make all the difference.

Kirk Varnedoe

#24. A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

Dalai Lama

#25. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

B.C. Forbes

#26. Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

Jack Kornfield

#27. A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Joseph Lancaster

#28. Independent," I say, "and uninvolved. Must be nice

Veronica Roth

#29. For my father, being kind was natural ... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

David Copperfield

#30. But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.

Leo Tolstoy