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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and understanding.
Debasish Mridha
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is the foundation of a meaningful life.
Dalai Lama XIV
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz
Empathy is the key to conflict resolution.
Louise Diamond
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the key to conflict resolution, because once you see and understand another person's point of view, you can't hate them anymore.
Mia Kirshner
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menniger
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Malcom Forbes
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
Listening is not reacting. It is being present.
Anonymous
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
Non-judgment is the key to unlocking compassion.
Unknown
Non-judgment is the key to unlocking empathy.
Unknown
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
Deepak Chopra
The more we practice non-judgmental observation, the more we see things as they are, rather than as we are.
Mark Epstein
Non-judgment is a powerful tool for growth and transformation because it allows us to see things as they are, rather than as we wish they were.
Sharon Salzberg
Non-judgment is the foundation of mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Non-judgment is the ultimate form of respect.
Unknown
Non-judgment is the beginning of peace.
Unknown
Non-judgment is the highest form of intelligence.
Unknown
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
The more you understand yourself, the more silence there is, the healthier you are.
Maxime Lagacé
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius
The better you know yourself, the better your life will be.
Diane von Furstenberg
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the path; love is the destination.
Bryant McGill
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Unknown
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is the ultimate weapon against stress. It's the ability to observe without judgment, letting us see our thoughts and feelings as they are, rather than as we wish they were.
Ellen Langer
Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.
Christina Feldman
The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.
Dalai Lama
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss
Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
Brené Brown
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
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.
Russell Simmons
Compassion is not a sentiment but is an ethical principle that requires action.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of our ego and connecting with others.
Scott Stabile
Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action!
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
The more you understand, the less you judge.
Unknown
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Stephen Covey
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The more we can empathize with others, the more we can understand our own behavior.
Unknown
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of self-acceptance.
John C. Maxwell
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of them.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your understanding and acceptance.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of who they are.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of their imperfections.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your acceptance of their uniqueness.
Unknown
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
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