Courtesy of Claudia Hall Christian Everyday Kindness
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Og Mandino
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
Mary Schmich
“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”
Dalai Lama
Being kind is the cure for extreme self-centeredness.
“Do you love the world? Do you believe the world loves you back?” In “The Braiding of Sweetgrass”, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks this question.
How would you answer this question? And why?
Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is find a nice place to sit and wait out the hysteria. Be kind to you, first so that you have the energy to be kind to others.
The sun goes down on everyone at one time or another. Be kind.
What do you need to be your best this week? How can you add it into your plans?
