“Charity and kindness unwedded to truth are not charity and kindness, but deceit and vanity.”
“A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“He could almost believe there were angels in the wild.”
Source: American Princess
“There’s only one you, and that’s why you must be kind and true.”
Source: Slipping into another world
“Daindreth had been cursed, same as she was. He couldn’t help it. But where her curse had shattered her into sharp edges and left her with smoldering rage, Daindreth’s had made him kind. All that pain, terror, and anger and it had made him kind.”
Source: Daindreth's Assassin
“Kindness and connection, even with the natural world, create ripples that go far beyond ourselves.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Two teams ran into each other at the local charity hospital in Austin. Both had the same idea to visit the maternity ward to support a new mother who was giving birth to a baby that day. The nurses at the hospital told both teams that there were two single mothers who had given birth that day. Both mothers were certain to need the money. One team gave a card and a crisp hundred-dollar bill. The other team purchased a hundred-dollar savings bond and wrote a card stating: "Because your baby is born on a day that will always be linked to a day of tragedy, we'd like you to have something positive you may share with the child in future years.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
“Ball even tracked down Gander mayor Claude Elliott for the story. He said of the Gander 9/11 response, "We did the only thing we know how to do, which was to comfort them, console them, and show them some love.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
“The beauty of a grassroots movement like Pay It Forward 9/11 is that it takes on a life of its own. I was soon to find out that kindness spreads like wildfire and the heart of the Gander story was about to catch flame, this time set to music.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
“The commemorative events in Gander that I was part of exceeded what most American cities (especially small towns) were doing to make the 9/11 tenth anniversary. Perhaps Americans still didn't see anything good to celebrate. For America, the anniversary is a day of mourning. In Gander, it is a reminder of how they helped the world.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11