Best kindness & wise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.”

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Author:Jessye Norman

“We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.”

“Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.”

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Author:Thubten Yeshe

“If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.”

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Author:Plato

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

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Book:Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.”

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Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.”

“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”

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Book:The Ethics of Confucius

Source: The Ethics of Confucius

“How wise must one be to be always kind.”

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”

“Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.”

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Author:Bhartrhari

“Kindness is more persuasive than force.”

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Book:Aesop in the afternoon

Source: Aesop in the afternoon

“Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.”

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Book:Skylines and Horizons

Source: Skylines and Horizons

“A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.”

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Author:Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

“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.”

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Author:Sharon Salzberg

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