Top 100 Quotes About Loving Kindness
#1. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#3. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#4. Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
Alistair Begg
#5. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
Dallin H. Oaks
#6. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#7. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
#10. 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
#11. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.
Phillip Moffitt
#12. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
#13. Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.
Nella Larsen
#14. Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.
Peter McWilliams
#16. Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
Tom Baker
#17. A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#18. When you begin to overlook the routine act of kindness given by a generous & caring soul, you unwittingly halt your blessings
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#19. When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.
Krishna Das
#20. Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
Thubten Yeshe
#21. Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
Bell Hooks
#24. Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.
Saint Blaise
#25. The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.
Dalai Lama
#26. The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. 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
#28. You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!
Kemi Sogunle
#29. What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts ...
Robert E.Lee
#30. To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
Thich Thien-An
#31. Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
Nhat Hanh
#32. It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
Tertullian
#33. There can never be too much loving kindness or chesed.
Heather Wolf
#34. Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.
Marlena De Blasi
#35. O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Confucius
#37. Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#38. Loss of safe harbor, refuge of grace, where loving-kindness rues one day like another.
B.G. Brainard
#39. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
Dan Pearce
#40. Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#41. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.
Heather Wolf
#42. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,
Sharon Salzberg
#43. Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#47. Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.
Edgar Cayce
#48. Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
Sharon Salzberg
#49. However, for Hardy the possibility of poetry's traditional function of transcendence remains, but in a more limited form. In Hardy's work the poet transcends himself towards humanity, affirming the central values of loving-kindness and fellowship.
Geoffrey Harvey
#50. To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.
Theocritus
#52. 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
#53. It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
Alice Nicholls
#54. By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
Tara Brach
#55. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
#56. Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.
Heather Wolf
#57. What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.
Shinjo Ito
#58. Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone.
Debasish Mridha
#59. The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
Mandy Hale
#60. To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.
Dalai Lama
#61. The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#62. A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#63. If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#64. The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard
Henry David Thoreau
#65. Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#66. We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith
#67. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. 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
#69. Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.
Ma Jaya
#70. We made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
Marcel Proust
#71. The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart.
Laurence Overmire
#72. Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
Pema Chodron
#73. It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.
Elizabeth George
#74. Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.
Oladosu Feyikogbon
#75. When people are kind, rational, generous and loving..
Be grateful, appreciate it and make the most of it at that time..
Because it is not necessarily the normal/real way of things at all..
Reason, generosity, kindness & love are rare resources in this world..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#76. It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#77. Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.
Confucius
#78. Without loving-kindness, staying in pain is just warfare.
Pema Chodron
#79. One of our main purposes in life is to be loving and be kind, but also to cultivate kindness in other's minds.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.
Pope John Paul II
#81. 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
#82. Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
Hudson Taylor
#83. This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
Karl Barth
#84. Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. 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
#86. God doesn't call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn't teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!
Shannon L. Alder
#87. When you are kind, you create kindness in others' minds. So always, be loving and be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)
Ananda Maitreya
#89. Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess
Munia Khan
#90. You attract what you give out. So be loving and kind to attract love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Confucius
#97. It doesn't kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!
Lily Amis
#98. If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.
Ross Macdonald
#99. Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.
Taite Adams
#100. Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
Leo Buscaglia
