“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”
Source: Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier
“If you want kindness from others, be kind. If you want love from others, be loving. If you want peace from others, be peaceful.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Life lies in service, Selfishness kills vitalidad.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn”
Source: Audrey Hepburn 2019 Calendar
“Fairness is not decomposable into other classified strengths, although such characteristics as kindness may lay its foundation and such characteristics as self-regulation may facilitate its implementation.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the quality of their lives or even their lives at all. When politicians and salespeople start being kind to black women, seeking them out, offering them largesse, the women accept the soft voices, the simpering statements, the often idle promises, because those are likely to be the only flattering behavior directed to them that day. Behind the women's eyes, however, there is a wisdom that does not pretend to be unaware; nor does it permit gullibility.”
Source: A Song Flung Up to Heaven
“If we’re going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.”
Source: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
“Compassion, kindness, joy, laughter, playfulness, light-heartedness, wonder and awe don’t simply feel good—they’re also a neurobiological recipe for wellbeing and longevity.”
“If you know people who are suffering, love them. Truly be of service. Even something as simple as a smile is loving and may be the only love or kindness gifted to them that day. Hug them, see them, love them, accept them unconditionally.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard—
why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness?
I am trying, I think, to forgive myself
for something I don’t know what.
But what I do know is that I love the moment when the poet says
I am trying to do this
or I am trying to do that.”
Source: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude