Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I …
40 days of poetry: Day 23: Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
Quote for Today: Bonnie Badenoch
It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn’t the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for …
Quote for Today: Rasheed Ogunlaru
Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help …
Quote for Today: Therese of Lisieux
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness …
Quote for Today: Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire …
Quote for Today: Peter Høeg
No person can open another person; all we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occurs. ―Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl Image: an act of kindness …
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the …
Quote for Today: Sam Levenson
We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, …
Quote for Today: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ―Franklin Delano Roosevelt Image …