Radical Kindness Quotes

“In other words, when you truly know your authentic self, you can’t help but treat yourself with kindness and respect.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“Of course, interacting with others isn’t always easy or fun. As philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in his play No Exit, “Hell is other people.” But what he failed to mention is that heaven is other people, too. The loving relationships we forge with others make our lives worth living. So, we owe it to ourselves and to our loved ones to nurture those relationships with kindness.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“Practicing radical kindness means assuming the best of everyone—heart-seeing them—and then acting toward them with compassion, patience, and humility. It means infusing what we think, say, and do throughout the day with warmth, understanding, and care. It means treating everyone—including ourselves!—as important, as if they matter in the world. And yes, that means everyone, whether that person is a family member, friend, stranger, panhandler, someone with opposing political views, or the loudmouth on his cell phone”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“Radical kindness means rooting all you say and do in kindness, being unconditionally kind all the time, to everyone. It means going beyond situational niceness or merely “doing the right thing” and, instead, living from a place of compassion.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“And indeed, Fred Rogers placed kindness at the root of all he said and did on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a program that began in 1968, a time of social and cultural upheaval in the United States. With a contentious war being waged in Vietnam and violent clashes over civil rights at home, Mister Rogers treated all children and adults who tuned in to his show or who visited his make-believe neighborhood with tenderness, consideration, respect, patience, and empathy, and that’s something that could rightly be called radical or even revolutionary, in a period mired in discord. Kindness was at the root of all he did and said.”
― Angela C. Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“As you internalize radical kindness, you’ll find yourself getting increasingly creative in expressing it, both inwardly and outwardly.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“This is how we will evolve: by striving to see rightly and embracing what is invisible to the eye but essential to the heart.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“We can pull the fuel rods of anger and division right out and replace them with kindness, which is an understanding of how much alike we all are and how much we all need kindness to sustain us.” Burns”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“The pause is an opportunity to reflect, especially during moments of tension, so that you can pivot toward kindness and compassion rather than criticism.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“The qualities you need in order to be kind (compassion, integrity, respect) are exactly the same qualities you need to be brave, strong, and successful.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“Mister Rogers once said, “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving

“Practicing radical kindness reminds us of what is essential in our own lives: our families, our work, our friendships, our communities. It helps us see every man, woman, and child we meet the way Mister Rogers did: as individuals possessing great richness, as embodiments of love.”
― Angela Santomero, Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving