The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Kindness

Posted by Shawn Altman on May 28, 2013 in The Zen Of Success

strongemKindness is a conscious act we often perform without completely understanding our individual motivations nor the impact of the results that kindness can have on individuals, groups, households, families, villages, towns, counties, cities, states, and countries. Lasting relationships are often built on simple acts of kindness that often change the world, providing evidence of the powerful force that is KINDNESS./em/strong

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strongemOne of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about the act of KINDNESS and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and positive, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding./em/strong

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without emkindness/em, there can be no true joy. – strongThomas Carlyle/strong

A little thought and a little emkindness/em are often worth more than a great deal of money. – strongJohn Ruskin/strongstrong
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even emkindness/em. – strongBryant H. McGill/strong

A part of emkindness/em consists in loving people more than they deserve. – strongJoseph Joubert/strong

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with emkindness/em. – strongJoseph Lancaster/strong

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants emkindness/em gathers love. – strongSaint Basil/strongstrong
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A warm smile is the universal language of emkindness/em. – strongWilliam Arthur Ward/strong

A word of emkindness/em is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. – strongGeorge Dennison Prentice/strong

An enemy to whom you show emkindness/em becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. – strongSaadi/strongstrong
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And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by emkindness/em, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. – strongMartin Scorsese/strong

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of emkindness /emand decency. – strongCaroline Kennedy/strong

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make emkindness/em your daily modus operandi and change your world. – strongAnnie Lennox/strong

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, emkindness/em and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – strongOg Mandino/strong

Carry out a random act of emkindness/em, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – strongPrincess Diana/strong

Constant emkindness/em can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, emkindness /emcauses misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. – strongAlbert Schweitzer/strong

Deliberately seek opportunities for emkindness/em, sympathy, and patience. – strongEvelyn/strongstrong Underhill/strong

Everyone responds to emkindness/em. – strongRichard Gere/strongstrong
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of emkindness/em; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – strongAudrey Hepburn/strong