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That best portion of a good man's life,-his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Kind words are the music of the world.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complication. One's own mind, one's own heart is the temple, and loving-kindness is the philosophy.
Living in the modern age,
death for virtue is the wage.
So it seems in darker hours.
Evil wins, kindness cowers.
Ruled by violence and vice
we all stand upon thin ice.
Are we brave or are we mice,
here upon such thin, thin ice?
Dare we linger, dare we skate?
Dare we laugh or celebrate,
knowing we may strain the ice?
Preserve the ice at any price?
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness or despair; they are manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Every time you opt in to kindness
Make one connection, used to divide us
It echoes all over the world
It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'
"If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
"With this guage, let all be measured: 'Is this an act of love?'"
"I believe that there is only one story in the world...Humans are caught--in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too--in a net of good and evil...A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?"
If I had a penny for everything I love about you, I would have many pennies.
Have you ever heard about the effects of kindness on your brain? Wayne Dyer shares the amazing science of kindness in his book “Power of Intention.” It goes something like this:
Serotonin is the drug that makes you feel good. It’s what all the pharmaceutical companies pump into those wonderful little anti-depressants. It’s also a little drug God decided to pump through our brains when we do things he/she/it likes. It’s kinda like a little reward for good behavior, you know?
Anyway, get this: when you do something kind for someone else, the person you’re helping has serotonin released in her brain—she feels happier.
And so do you.
Good news! Two more serotonin-induced happier people in the world! Woo hoo!
But the most amazing thing is this: not only do you and the person you helped feel better, so does some random person who happened to watch your act of kindness.
Let’s be nice.
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
That which is good for all and any one,
For whomsoever- that is good for me. . .
What I hold good for self, I should for all.
Only Law Universal is true law.
"Thanks to their kindness in refusing me lodging,
I found myself beneath the blossoms
On the night of this misty moon."
The Mirror of Me
In a dream I looked into a pool and what I saw was me,
But in a gentler version of what we really see.
I was then shown, this pool really does reflect,
Every one I chance to meet, in all things that exist.
As I go about my day, do I see the piece of me,
that lives in everyone I meet, in every bird and tree?
It's hard some days to see myself in beggar and in thief,
In Gossip and in Poverty as I pass it on the street.
Compassion is the key, how would it be if it was me?
Would I hope to get a smile from everyone I see?
Or would I like them to scorn and scold me for my mistake,
and pass me as so many did, leaving judgment in their wake?
Since I am a piece of God, and walk the Beauty way,
I must help myself up off the street and give encouragement away.
To give a smile.. ... You can do It... I can understand,
I can help...what can I do...give a helping hand.
For in the ripples of the pool the reflection is You I see.
It's hard to tell but I now know that you're a part of me.
God has a Great Reflecting Pool, and as he looks Within,
In His Great Wisdom sees me inside of Him.
He treats me gently like a child, no matter what mistakes I make,
And all He asks in return is that I might do the same.
Imagine being invited to a banquet where you bring your own meal-
and you brought a steak ,baked potatoes and asparagus with Boston cream pie for desert.
Joining you at that table were a sampling of the human diversity from your community.
Across from you at this table was a mother with children who had nothing to bring-
how much would you enjoy your meal without sharing it?
Marianne Goldweber
Spiritualist-Minister
"The best portion of a good man's life:
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and love."
"You'll catch more bees with honey than you will with vinegar!"
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
A generous friend
gives life for a friend
let's rise above this
animalistic behavior
and be kind to one another
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically--with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings--without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
