Kindness
September 2008
Love is patient, love is kind.
1Corinthians 13:4
Kindness is showing your care, doing some good to make life better for others. It is being throughful about people's needs. Kindness is showing love and compassion to someone who is sad or needs your help. Kindness is treating yourself andothers gently. It is caring about the earth and all living things.
Without kindness, no one would listen when people or animals need help. Everyone would be looking out for himself. The world is lonely without kindness. When someone reacher out to another in an acti of kindness, it helps them both. People's lack of kindness to the earth damages the air, water and the land. This causes people and animals to suffer, too. Being kind allows us to feel connected to everything and everyone.
Quotations:
Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ~Harold Kushner
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. ~Henry James
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Teresa
Let no one every come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness inyour face, kindness inyour eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. ~Mother Teresa
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard Kipling
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
When you plant a lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer or more water or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
