Twenty Quotes of Love, Compassion, and Kindness
Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine
IF we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tells you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others. ~The Supreme Master Ching Hai
Each of us have lived through some devastation,some loneliness, some weather superstorm, or some spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand how you feel because I've been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. ~Maya Angelou
AS you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~Audrey Hepburn
THE whole of planet Earth is a sacred site. All people are the chosen people and the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one. May we care for each other and for the earth for everything relates to everything else. Feeling this oneness may we radiate the light of love and kindness that all may live in unity and peace. ~Radha Sahar
WHEN ego takes center stage you begin to feel fear, you build excuses, you find wrong in everything and everyone. It is your duty to give it light and get back to love. ~Author Unknown
WHEN you find yourself in the position to help someone, be happy and feel blessed because that person's prayer is being answered through you. Remember—our purpose on earth is not to get lost in the dark but to be a light to others so that they may find their way through us. ~Author Unknown
BE the sunrise to someone's lonely soul. ~Randi Fine
WHEN another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
I do not judge people by the scriptures of their faith or the scars from their past. I embrace them by the content of their hearts. ~Dodinsky
IF I want to be loved as I am I have to be willing to love others as they are. ~Louise Hay
IF you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others--because in relationship with others, the other is nothing but a mirror. ~Rumi
ALL joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy. ~Shantideva
WE are all entwined together in the fabric of the Universe. The smallest act of kindness or a simple kind word will change the fabric into a masterpiece. ~Author Unknown
IF we could look into the hearts of others and understand the hardships that every one of us faces daily, I think that we would treat each other with more gentleness, patience, tolerance and care. ~Author Unknown
SOMETIMES others will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured. ~Dodinsky
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 Chodron
WE'RE all just walking each other home. ~Ram Dass
YOU never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal. ~Jewish Proverb
SPREAD love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. ~Mother Teresa
OUR visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them. ~Dalai Lama