#kind

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#anxiety #attitude #bombs #chance #contemporary

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#sympathy #life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15 ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#life

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#human-kindness #philosophical #ussr #life

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It’s like they’re sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play. ↗

— Helen Smith

#life

little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right. As parents or friends, we know all that. In fact, we are delighted (most of the time!) to find out what is on their little hearts. We don’t scold them for being self-absorbed or fearful. That is just who they are. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. ↗

— John Piper

#christ #christianity #god #kindness #life

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#love #life

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#love #self-worth #love