#kindness

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#buddhist #central #compassion #core #fact

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. ↗

— John Milton

#etiquette-and-attitude #gratitude #kindness #manners #thankfulness

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #consciousness #individualism #kindness #love

Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#kindness #respect #beauty

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love. ↗

— Stephen Levine

#compassion #death #dying #kindness #love

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#kind #kindness #love #serve #service

Don’t be too nice to him,” I teased. “He’ll never leave. ↗

— Juliet Blackwell

#funny #joking #kindness #funny

The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ↗

— Victor Borge

#kindness #music #victor-borge #humor

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#sleep #unkindness #love