Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

A friend is as it were a second self.