20 Quotes to Inspire Kindness

I hope you enjoy the following quotes on kindness and they inspire you to continue to be kind towards yourself, other people and the planet.

20 Quotes to Inspire Kindness –

• “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~ Plato
• “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
• “Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” ~ Buddha
• “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein
• “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ~ Anne Frank
• “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
• “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ~ Aesop
• “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
• “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV
• “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” ~ Pema Chödrön
• “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya Angelou
• “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.” ~ Lao Tzu
• “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” ~ Jesse Jackson
• “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.  Your life will never be the same again.” ~ Og Mandino
• “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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