Kindness

Hello All,
We have been a little busy over here but I just wanted to stop in and say hello.

My thoughts of the day are on kindness. Many times in our lives we come across people that for whatever reason feel the need to tear one down. They come in many forms: friends, family, strangers, any one. But we also come across those that are so kind they let off a kind of glow.

I strive to be that person, I strive to raise my children to be those people. You never know who that person you tear down could have been or will be...but they will remember the way you treat them and make them feel. It is hard especially when those you consider family or friends are the ones that are negative or always have something mean to say to your positiveness or happiness. What do you do in a situation like that?

Continue to treat them with kindness! That does not mean let them walk all over you, you may even have to distance yourself from them but never disrespect them or treat them any other way than you yourself would want to be treated. It is a lot harder said than done initially but in the end it is worth it because you can feel good within yourself that you have done the right thing and when you look back on your life you will not have the regrets that others may have.

Here are some quotes on kindness that I really like and try to live by:


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.  ~Jesse Jackson

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Author Unknown

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.  ~Author Unknown

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.  ~Rudyard Kipling

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.  ~Seneca

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.  ~Samuel Johnson

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.  ~Confucius

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  ~Author Unknown

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

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.  ~John Wooden

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.  ~Frank A. Clark

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.  ~Author Unknown

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.  ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.  ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738

Always be a little kinder than necessary.  ~James M. Barrie

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.  ~William Feather

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