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“Being nice is often about avoiding conflict, letting inappropriate actions slide, or bottling up words and actions that ought to be spoken and enacted to prevent creating an uncomfortable scene. At its worst, being nice reinforces actions and attitudes that strip away human dignity.”

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Book:In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

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“. . . if we do not continue to choose kindness together, can you imagine how much worse the world will become? The least we can do in response to and in gratitude for all those kindness giants who have paved the way is to do the same for the generations to come.”

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Book:In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“As a river flowing beyond mountains, Far over the horizon it flows. No one knows where its water goes, what it touches or where it comes close. Encouragement can move mountains, Mountains of desperation and need. Who would know its effect or its deed? Who’d know the hungry it’ll feed?”

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“Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to avoid, but a means to a deeper, stronger, and kinder world.”

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Book:In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“Expressions of kindness in times of social change and public protest should focus on those who are seeking justice and liberation and not on the ones whose privileged worlds are being disrupted by the leveling of a social playing field or a correction in disparities of access, power, or authority.”

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“Kindness that is fueled by guilt, pity, or colonialism is not kindness at all. Kindness is not currency or a commodity to be used to barter and bargain away the sins of our past or to alleviate our responsibility to be part of global recovery efforts in times of tragedy.”

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Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“Sometimes people try so hard to be right that they forget the importance of being kind.”

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“if we honor and value the complex ways in which people engage in organizational work, we are honoring the person and showing them kindness. At the end of the day, kindness in a meeting environment is about valuing the human before us: their time, their perspectives, and their personalities.”

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Source: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“Kindness is not a journey for the meek and mild. For those of us who have been steeped in ways of being that are not kind, it takes tremendous energy to purge ourselves of patterns and behaviors that are not kind. Every day we have to choose to commit to live out kindness that day.”

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“Kindness, after all, comes to him naturally; he was hatched in its lucky genre and embraces its attributes effortlessly. Gentleness, generosity and compromise are not for him learned skills; they have always been with him . . . It may, for all I know, have existed in his family for generations. He is not at the frontier as I am. For me kindness is an alien quality; and like a difficult French verb I must learn it slowly, painfully, and probably imperfectly. It does not swim freely in my bloodstream -- I have to inject it artificially at the risk of all sorts of unknown factors. It does not wake with me in the mornings; every day I have to coax it anew into existence, breathe on it to keep it alive, practice it to keep it in good working order. And most difficult of all, I have to exercise it in such a way that it looks spontaneous and genuine; I have to see that it flows without hesitation as it does from its true practitioners, its lucky heirs who acquire it without laborious seeking . . .”

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