The Kindness Box

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This page about important qualities mentions kindness {IF you scroll down to number 23} -

Another one of the most important qualities on this list. Similar to generosity, kindness is about taking action. It is about expressing warmth and offering a gesture that can help another human being and making them feel welcomed and accepted. Also similar to generosity, acts of kindness can make you feel spectacular.

Here is the full list -

25 Character Traits to Cultivate for Lasting Happiness and Success

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“Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.” - Joyce Rachelle-

“Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents. Later on in life, when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since we are dependent on the kindness of others at the beginning and end of our lives, then how can we neglect projecting kindness towards others in the middle of our lives, when it is our best time to share it?” - Suzy Kassem-

“Rivers don’t drink their own waters; trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others!” - Israelmore Ayivor-

 

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“Be nice to nice.” - Harry Styles-

“Kindness is the best nourishment for humanity.” - Debasish Mridha-

“The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.” - Shannon L. Alder-

 

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Stories about generosity -

No Junk Reading

Last year, Mathew Flores, a 12-year-old from Sandy, Utah, approached postal worker Ron Lynch and asked if he had any extra advertisements or random newsletters. The boy explained that he loved to read but couldn’t afford books or even the bus fare to the library, so he would take anything the mailman had. Lynch was floored. “He didn’t want electronics; he didn’t want to sit in front of the TV playing games all day. The kid just wanted to read,” Lynch told deseretnews.com. Lynch asked his Facebook friends for reading material. Soon, Flores was getting books from all over the world—the United States, England, and even India. For his part, Flores said that he plans to read all the books, then share them with other book-starved kids.

Comes from this site with even more stories -

17 Extraordinary Stories of Giving—From People Just Like You and Me

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Handle rude people with kindness

Don’t let rudeness make you respond with more of the same. The best way to defuse rude behavior is to stay friendly and helpful, giving the other person a chance to calm down and adjust their behavior to match yours.

10 Smart Ways to Deal with Rude People

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens."- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen Quote

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"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”-John Bunyan-

 

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"It's easy and very powerful to be kind and courteous to those who are kind and courteous to you. Yet to experience the full power of your sincere courtesy and kindness, offer them to people who are careless and rude to you."

Forgot to note the author and Google didn't hep much for once!

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Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

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Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges... | Picture Quotes

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100 ways to be kinder - just happened to notice the link n this site -

100 Ways to Be Kinder

Acts of kindness makes us feel good, valuable and alive. Think about the last time you went out of your way to be kind to someone. Didn’t it make your day too? Many people extend kindness as part of their good nature, but what if we made a more conscious effort to be even kinder by practicing kindness regularly? We will be spreading good feelings and making a difference that has a lasting, ripple effect and undoubtedly changing the world.

Practicing random kindness while expecting nothing in return except the good feelings that these acts provide is life-giving. Below are 100 ways to “pay it forward” as the term has been coined. Some are simple and some might take you out of your comfort zone. At the end of your life, what a better way to be remembered than that of a “kind” person.

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At that same site -

Tara Cousineau, PhD heart’s work is on cultivating kindfulness, a term she describes as capturing the intersection of mindfulness, kindness and compassion or “experiencing the present moment with heart.” She has written a book, The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World. Her mission with the book is to educate people on the power of authentic and intentional kindness.

Dr. Tara’s book brilliantly intertwines stories, science-based evidence and kindness practices to help readers better understand the positive impact kindness has on our world and ourselves, as well as how to cultivate kindness in everyday life. She is a clinical psychologist and researcher by profession, a mother, and a kindness warrior.

Below is an interview with Stacey Thompson, founder of Virtues for Life, about her newly released book.

Read the interview here -

Q&A on Kindness with Tara Cousineau, PhD - Virtues for Life

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“You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody’s lifetime of prayers.” - Sanober Khan-

“True beauty is a warm heart, a kind soul, and an attentive ear.” - Ken Poirot-

"Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.” - Debasish Mridha-

"When you smile, say things that light another soul, breathe freshness to a group, dance in sheer ecstasy of gratitude to the Divinity all around, you are throwing colors of your spirit into the universe. This is true Holi festival. Any day could be your Holi-day."~~Bodhi

 

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“Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.” - Elaina Marie-

“If you find a need, reach out to help.” - Lailah G. Akita-

“Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.” - Sunday Adelaja-

 

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“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” - Og Mandino-

 

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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -Immanuel Kant-

 

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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -Immanuel Kant-

Thanks for sharing!

Had not heard of the Kant quote before.

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“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer-

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

 

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“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” - Goldie Hawn-