Edgar Cayce Quotes

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

Humility is important.

I now see that I never needed to be so mean or cruel.