Ultimate mercy is when sharing with others the only piece of bread we have, and that’s barely enough to extinguish your own hunger.
Without kindness there can be no true joy. – Thomas Carlyle
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing, we do for others. – Lewis Carroll
If we don’t protect the most vulnerable around us we are failures indeed.
The best portion of a good life – little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth
Confucius said, “Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.” If you have trouble treating yourself kindly, consider it in reverse. – Alan Robert Neal
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. – John McLeod
A king is measured by the size of his heart.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look, What happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important. – Dwayne Johnson
Let me share a secret with you – if you give more to somebody, that somebody will give more back to you; and so it is with the master too. – RVM
One lights the fire and the other five bask by it.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning. – Frederick W. Faber
Sweet as sugar hard as ice, call me once, I’ll help you twice.
The fact is, when we support others, we ourselves are actually being supported; when we help others, we ourselves are actually being helped. This is the worldview of “dependent origination” taught in Buddhism.
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. – Erich Fromm
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