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“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.”

Problem Natural Kindness Source Goodness Concern Developing Selfishness Welfare Respecting Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.”

Want Book Real Running Natural Kindness Fancy My Thoughts Convenience Lively Troublesome Recourse Mutiny

Book:Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

“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.”

People Way Heart Hard Facts Form Natural Practice Kindness Fine Gratitude Loving Kindness Expressing Gratitude Benefactors Forms Of Love Natural Forms

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.”

Natural Kindness Fundamentals Appreciation Genuine Genuine Smiles

Author:Dalai Lama

“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.”

Reason Spirit Language Natural Kindness Independence Breathing Submit Compulsion Englishmen Brooks

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

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

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Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.”

“She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.”

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Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“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.”

Two Wish Natural Kindness Months Educational Branches Instruction Twelve Natural History Botany

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.”

Ifs World Way Kind Seems Earth Song Lost Causes Natural Kindness Angel Kind Words Words Of Kindness Power Of Kindness

Book:Spiritual conferences

Source: Spiritual conferences

“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.”

Kind Father Winning Natural Kindness Be Kind Associates Competing Conquest

Author:David Copperfield

“The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.”

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Author:Sam Shoemaker

“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.”

Heart Made Ends Beautiful Loses Natural Beauty Kindness Intimacy Sufficient Revealing Distraught

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.”

Way Should Natural Kindness Exception

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be persuaded and brought to a good order and way of life, and made domestic, mild and tractable, provided . . . the method that is proper and natural to men is used; that is, love and gentleness and kindness.”

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Book:Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas