Kindness

Softness overcomes hardness.

A kind man sees kindness, the wise man sees wisdom

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

He who receives kindness should never forget it;
but he who performs it should never remember it

Kindness
is giving others happiness.
Compassion
is removing others' bitterness.
Joy
is freeing others from suffering.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good--and how he treats people who can't fight back.

With kindness, with love and compassion, with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . .

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

One should not hurt others even by words.  One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. 

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

Fair and softly goes far.

And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. 

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.