stuff tagged with "kindness"

Be Kind. Bring Joy. Repeat.

— "Weird Al" Yankovic

For most of my life, I would have rolled my eyes at a lot of the language of kindness or self-empathy as insufferably fuzzy-minded, a kind of indulgence that distracts from more meaningful work. But further into adulthood, having grown, and endured loss, and been with loved ones and friends as they've grieved and struggled and been through all the countless small indignities that life inflicts on us all, I realize that it's actually pretty important to extend kindness to oneself.

— Anil Dash

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it--elementary kindness. Enough to eat. Enough to go around. The possibility that kids may grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"

The problem in this country is not that we fail to 'get along' with people, parties, and politics with which we disagree. The problem is that we are horrific at justly loving the people, places, and politics we purport to love.

— Kiese Laymon

Be kind to your shadow.

— Rebecca Lawless

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil

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.

— Dalai Lama

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

— Charlie Chaplin