Top 62 Real Kindness Quotes
#1. Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
Confucius
#2. When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage Landor
#3. Real kindness and compassion is not about feeling sorry for someone else. Rather, it is showing up, to help them discover their true value.
Charles F. Glassman
#5. It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.
Evalyn Walsh McLean
#6. Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#7. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Don't suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.
Nikki Rowe
#9. Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.
Mare Chapman
#10. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Sharon Salzberg
#11. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.
Eugene V. Debs
#14. I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.
Mike Epps
#15. The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Hill Harper
#16. Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact that all the real, solid, elemental jests against doctors were uttered some one or two thousand years ago.
Charles Loomis Dana
#17. Kindness lives. It is real and tangible and it lives somewhere and will always be there. Kindness and love is matter and cannot be destroyed, but it can be recalled and found over and over again. It's out there. It lives.
Donald S. Smurthwaite
#18. Money is just padding. It can be used to shelter you from some things, but there's no sheltering from other things like love and kindness. Money has no effect on the real stuff.
Tijan
#19. Popularity is more than looks. It's not clothes, hair, or even possessions. When we let go of these labels, we see how flimsy and relative they actually are. Real popularity is kindness and acceptance. It is about who you are, and how you treat others.
Maya Van Wagenen
#20. Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As
Holly Black
#21. Real popularity is taking the time to love others, reaching out, and never being afraid to be the first one dancing. REMEMBER THE GIRL IN PEARLS.
Maya Van Wagenen
#22. Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Nhat Hanh
#23. I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.
Stephen Fry
#24. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#25. More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
William Barclay
#26. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
Sharon Salzberg
#28. The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.
Clarence Darrow
#29. I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
Nelson Mandela
#30. Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.
Sharon Salzberg
#31. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Mary Pipher
#32. In order to achieve peace, tranquility, and real friendship, we must minimize anger and cultivate kindness and a warm heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#33. These people all woke up this morning and reminded themselves to be human beings. Not everyone knows how to do that. No vermin, my people. Real human beings.
Jami Attenberg
#34. 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
#35. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
Sharon Salzberg
#36. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#38. The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
#39. The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
Louis De Bernieres
#40. Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.
Abhijit Naskar
#41. The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
Sharon Salzberg
#42. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#43. If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Gabri and Myrna were very rich indeed, rich in the things that matter. In friendships and laughter, in kindness and company. People rich in money might belong at the Inn and Spa, but those rich in other ways belonged in the tiny village of Three Pines. Here, kindness was the real currency.
Louise Penny
#45. Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one's partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.
Sharon Salzberg
#46. Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?
Nikki Rowe
#47. I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.
Leigh Hunt
#48. The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith Wharton
#49. To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.
David Walker
#50. The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. 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
#53. The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Eknath Easwaran
#54. Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.
Clare Bell
#55. It wasn't a fear associated with physical injury, but the prospect of real pain. A world where love and trust and kindness and intimacy were options. A world that, once she was inevitably forced to leave it again, would only exacerbate the loneliness and darkness of her reality.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#56. To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
Marty Rubin
#57. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#58. For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one duty only; they have a duty to mutiny!
Joss Sheldon
#60. I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.
Blake Crouch
#61. When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
Sharon Salzberg
#62. It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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